WaPo thinks judges are, well, overpaid
1st July 2007
Item. I rather suspect that they wouldn’t be so sniffy if, say, Ruth Bader Ginsberg were Chief Justice.
Obviously they didn’t reflect long on the fact that John Edwards didn’t get his 28,000 square foot extravaganza by being a judge. If a highly-qualified lawyer can be a judge at five figures or a trial lawyer at seven, pretty soon the only people on the bench will be the second-rate. (Some might say that we’re already there, but I’m trying to be nice here.) I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader how many people take government jobs because they’re “inside work with no heavy lifting”, as Bob Dole once famously said. Or they’re in it for the power; and do we really want that?