The federal judiciary says a looming wave of immigration prosecutions, staff cost-of-living pay adjustments and raises for defense lawyers assigned to indigents are among the reasons it needs a 7.6 percent increase in its fiscal year 2009 budget.
The request for a total budget of $6.72 billion does not include the 26 percent pay increase for federal judges recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee in December, according to Judge Julia S. Gibbons, chairwoman of the budget committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, which sets judiciary policy.
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