Federal Judiciary Wants More Money for Funny Wigs

With the country reeling from unemployment and a massive drop in the stock market resulting in the collapse of retirement accounts, you'd think most folks would be happy just having a steady gig with all the benefits. But the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, is already begging for a raise. From NYT:

“Judges knew what the pay was when they answered the call of public service,” he wrote. “But they did not know that Congress would steadily erode that pay in real terms by repeatedly failing over the years to provide even cost-of-living increases.”

This year, he said, every other federal employee, including members of Congress, received a cost-of-living increase. Only federal judges missed out.

This is not the best time to be hollering loudly about raises, because the Chief Justice already makes $200K+. Unless the Supreme Court wants to have the same popularity as Congress (already probing the depths of Screech-like uncoolness at 9%), they'd should probably just shut their yaps.