This is public service. The free market doesn't apply here.
2. A low-paid judge is a bribable judge.
That judge had no principles to begin with. Pay has nothing to do with it. There are lots of honorable judges who make (in their sense) far less than those who work in the private legal sector.
3. There are some things in life that you don't price-shop.
And there are other forms of employment for judges if they feel they don't make enough in the public sector. That's why it's called public service. You do it for your country & community, not for the money.
And then there's the prestige, perks, and POWER.
Oh yeah, and the speaking fees.
Roberts and everybody else who believes the way he believes are going to find that increasing the pay of judges is a really tough sell as long as scumbag liberal activist judges continue to urinate in people's faces as they shamelessly overturn, by fiat, the will of the public.
If judges like Roberts want to help expose and dump these judges who want nothing more than to please the liberal newsrooms and the "jackpot justice" trial attorney lobby which keeps them in their pockets, THEN they can ask for more money.