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WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts is calling on federal lawmakers to be as generous to judges as they have already been to themselves.
Roberts wants Congress to approve an inflation-related increase in pay for judges.
He says Congress has “unfairly denied” cost-of-living increases for judges. In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, released Wed nes day, the chief justice argues that judges’ salaries should keep pace with inflation.
Alone among federal employees, judges will not receive a cost-of-living allowance in 2009. Members of Congress are getting a 2.8 percent boost, worth $4,700.
Federal trial judges are paid $169,300 a year. Appellate judges make more, ranging up to Roberts’ salary of $217,400.
