{"id":7011,"date":"2003-07-28T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/7011\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:50:38","slug":"7011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/7011\/","title":{"rendered":"Raises A Constitutional Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Illinois, anyway, where the Supreme Court has recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-judg25.html\" target=\"new\">abjudicated its members and other statewide judges into a raise<\/a> when the governor said the state couldn&#8217;t afford the cost of living adjustments this year.<\/p>\n<p>Forget the constitutional crisis that occurs when the state comptroller doesn&#8217;t dish out the money.  Let&#8217;s think about the wisdom of allowing a bunch of judges to <i>sue<\/i> non-judges.  Where the hell do you find an impartial trial for that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and lest we overlook it, these sagacious twits have decreed themselves a raise to <b>$162,530<\/b> a year because they were barely scraping by at $158,103 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Illinois, anyway, where the Supreme Court has recently abjudicated its members and other statewide judges into a raise when the governor said the state couldn&#8217;t afford the cost of living adjustments this year. Forget the constitutional crisis that occurs when the state comptroller doesn&#8217;t dish out the money. Let&#8217;s think about the wisdom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21294,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/21294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}