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In his first year-end assessment of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts urged Congress to increase judicial pay to help keep good judges on the bench and to recruit new ones.

Roberts, who succeeded the late William Rehnquist, warned Congress that judges’ pay is an issue that is driving them off the bench and deterring qualified lawyers from throwing their names into consideration for judgeships.

“A strong and independent judiciary is not something that, once established, maintains itself,” Roberts wrote. “It is instead a trust that every generation is called upon to preserve, and the values it secures can be lost as readily through neglect as direct attack.”

Source: ABC News.