N.Y. Judge Orders Himself a Raise: Could Cost Taxpayers $700 Million
Setting the stage for a showdown among the three branches of government, a state judge has ordered Governor Paterson and the Legislature to start paying him and his 1,180 fellow state jurists more money.
If each judge on the state bench received the $600,000 sought by the four plaintiffs, the state’s taxpayers would be on the hook for more than $700 million.
The order by Judge Edward Lehner of state Supreme Court in Manhattan appears to instruct the Senate and Assembly to pass a law upping judges’ pay within 90 days, which could prove an impossibly fast time frame for slow-moving Albany.
The decision also raises constitutional questions about the authority of judges to perform the legislative job of setting salaries and deciding how best to spend tax dollars . . .
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It is this type of judicial system that will begin to force Sharia law upon America. WILL THIS NATION EVER WAKE UP?