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39 Third Branch 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/thirdbran39 and id is 1 raw text is: THE THIRD 2000 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary Between December 19 and January 8 there are 32 college bowl Games-but only one Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. I once asked my predecessor, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, why he released this annual report on the state of the federal courts on New Year's Day. He explained that it was difficult to get people to focus on the needs of the Judiciary and January 1 was historically a slow news day-a day on which the concerns of the courts just might get noticed. This is my second annual report on the Judiciary, and in it I am going to discuss only one issue-in an effort to increase even more the chances that people will take notice. That is important because the issue has been ignored far too long and has now reached the level of a constitutional crisis that threatens to undermine the strength and independence of the federal Judiciary. I am talking about the failure to raise judi- cial pay. This is usually the point at which many will put down the annual report and return to the Rose Bowl, but bear with me long enough to consider just three very revealing charts prepared by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The first shows Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. that, in 1969, federal district judges made 21 percent more than the dean at a top law school and 43 percent more than its senior law professors. Newsletter of the Federal Courts Vol. 39 Number I January 2007

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