Chief Justice's Annual Report on the Judiciary: Costs Are Down, and Pay Needs to Go Up

Chief Justice's Annual Report on the Judiciary: Costs Are Down, and Pay Needs to Go Up - In his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. praised the courts as frugal, dedicated and crucial to the life and economic recovery of the nation. But he said that to keep the courts strong, Congress needs to pass pay raises, or at least cost-of-living increases, for federal judges as soon as possible. Roberts' use of exclamation points in the written report betrays his frustration that calls for judicial pay increases have fallen on deaf ears in Congress. [Newswire]