Two years after the Georgia General Assembly boosted base salaries for the state’s appellate and trial court judges, a state commission is calling for another pay raise for judges, prosecutors and public defenders.

But those recommendations in a state report published this month include a significant proviso. The report from the governor’s Judicial, District Attorney, and Public Defender Compensation Commission ties thousands of dollars in pay increases to the elimination of local pay supplements that have for more than a century been used to augment local judges’ pay in some, but not all, of Georgia’s counties.

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