ScottWalker move to cut pay of #WI Chief Justice unconstitutional, say experts
Whow--they keep finding more Vile power grabs buried within Walker's budget..
Walker is a vile man!
#ScottWalker move to cut pay of #WI Chief Justice unconstitutional, say experts @PRwatch http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/02/12729/walker-moves-cut-pay-wisconsin-chief-justice-budget-bill
Posted by Mary Bottari on February 09, 2015
Walker Moves Pay Cut for WI Chief Justice in the Budget Bill
By Mary Bottari and Jonas Persson
....Budgets are also not supposed to be for petty vendettas against elected officials.
But tell that to Scott Walker.
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Now, CMD has found another gem buried on page 495 of Governor Walker’s 2015-2017 executive budget – a strike-out of the statutory language which provides a different level of compensation for the chief justice of the supreme court and the the associate justices.
If the intent of the language is to give the chief justice a pay cut, the move is unconstitutional, say legal experts.
New Judicial Commission Set Up to Set Salaries for Judges in a Nonpolitical Manner
Walker’s budget creates a Judicial Compensation Commission to review and make recommendations on judicial salaries. According to the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), the commission would submit a written report to the governor and the pertinent legislative committee every two years including recommendations on the salaries of the justices of the supreme court, court of appeals judges, and judges of circuit court.
All well and good. Not only does the supreme court back the idea of the commission, numerous states have implemented these commissions to ensure that judicial salaries are set regularly and objectively and treated in a nonpartisan, nonpolitical manner.
But here is the rub. The Walker budget slips in an edit to the section on the judicial commission that amends Section 914. 20.923 (2) (b) of the statutes to strike a statutory provision stating that "the salary established for the chief justice of the supreme court shall be different than the salaries established for the associate justices of the Supreme Court." Walker also significantly changed the makeup of the commission to ensure that 4 of the 7 commission members would be partisan appointees.
Apparently, Walker thinks Abrahamson needs a pay cut.............
- See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/02/12729/walker-moves-cut-pay-wisconsin-chief-justice-budget-bill#sthash.4PfSfJCg.dpuf
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