Recently, the legislature in Pennsylvania passed a pay raise for the term in which they were serving in violation of Pennsylvania constitution, which prohibits the legislature from raising their own pay during the term they are serving. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court nevertheless approved the pay raise, perhaps due in no small part to the fact that the judges also got a pay raise as part of the deal. Pennsylvania voters got their first opportuntiy to punish the political establishment today, with the Supreme Court Justices Newman and Nigro coming up for a vote on whether they should be allowed to...
