John Roberts Wants More

Supreme Court Justice John "Awe Shucks, Who Me" Roberts (speaking of faux mid-western humility) seems to have found an important issue to work on. He's got himself in a tizzy over the fact that fededral judges like himself are not getting paid as well as deans and law professors at the nations "top" schools. Openly disdainful of the concept of SERVICE - a principle such appointed positions were theoretically based on - Roberts was supposedly overheard to say, "What do these fucking minions think we are for God's sake, public servants or something? I'm a judge not a soup kitchen slopper head."

Given that the most generous estimates out there put the average income of the world citizen at around $5,000. I'd be rather embarrassed to be making a stink about my paltry $203K a year but not so for John-Boy. He doesn't really care about his own salary. He is a multi-millionaire. Believe me, in my experience this probably means he cares more than anyone pulling in less than $50,000 a year. Read the facts, Jacks and Jackettes. Send the poor guy a buck. He obviously needs it more than you or me, seriously.

WASHINGTON - Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress.

Issuing an eight-page message devoted exclusively to salaries, Roberts says the 678 full-time U.S. District Court judges, the backbone of the federal judiciary, are paid about half that of deans and senior law professors at top schools.

In the 1950s, 65 percent of U.S. District Court judges came from the practicing bar and 35 percent came from the public sector. Today the situation is reversed, Roberts said, with 60 percent from the public sector and less than 40 percent from private practice.

Federal district court judges are paid $165,200 annually; appeals court judges make $175,100; associate justices of the Supreme Court earn $203,000; the chief justice gets $212,100.