U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer told a House appropriations subcommittee March 14 that budget cuts triggered by sequestration could hamper the high court’s work over time but will hit lower federal courts more severely.
"For a few months we can get by with furloughs or shorter hours," said Kennedy as he presented the court’s $86.5 million budget to the subcommittee on financial services and general government. "In the long term it will be inconsistent" with the judiciary’s responsibilities as a co-equal branch of government.
