New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Judith Kaye has termed the battle for state judicial pay raises the "ultimate assault on judicial independence." She says the scenario in which judges have to lobby politicians for a raise must end. Kaye, who has run the court system for 14 years and has never seen "this level of frustration and anger and despair" among judges, is promoting legislative reform that would retroactively increase pay and provide for automatic cost-of-living increases in the future.
January 30, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye on Friday termed the ongoing and as yet unsuccessful battle for judicial pay raises the “ultimate assault on judicial independence.”
In an address to the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates, the chief judge said the unseemly scenario in which judges have to lobby politicians for a cost-of-living raise must come to an end. She urged the association to make judicial compensation a priority.
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