"Is that really your argument?"
It that really your answer to my question?
You claimed judges compete in the free market and I want to know with whom. All I'm doing is asking you to back up that assertion with a fact or two.
I'm getting in late on this one. Those judges can certainly practice law/open their own law firm if they want to make more money. I'm not sure how $165,000 per year is somehow peddled off as a crisis as though they are hitting the poverty line. How much is adequate? How about all those soldiers out there putting their lives on the line and fighting for our freedom at a mere fraction of this?