In her letter to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, state Supreme Court Justice Joette Katz stated that her reason for initially declining to take furlough days was that far more money could be saved by not appointing first nine and then four more new judges because they are not needed. The fact is we do have enough judicial manpower because the growing number of judge trial referees (judges who reach the age of 70) perform many judicial duties in our courts.
Other judges have felt it was not fair to ask them to take a pay cut of about $1,300 when they have not received a pay raise for eight years and when unionized state employees and state commissioners have received annual pay increases.
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