Chief Justice: Judges need more dough

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For those who follow such things, Wednesday's State of the Judiciary speech was something of a landmark.

Not only was the speaker someone other than Tom Phillips, the former chief justice who stepped down last year after nearly 17 years presiding over the Texas Supreme Court, but the speech to the Legislature didn't even touch on one of Phillips' longest-held political gripes: the way Texas elects judges.

Instead, new Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson pressed budgeteers for a pay raise for Texas judges.

"Texas is losing judges at all levels of the judiciary due, at least in part, to salaries that have not kept pace with the times," Jefferson said.
http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/02/24judges.html

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1. Bet they make more than I do AND

at least they HAVE a job, unlike many Americans nowdays!