ALBANY – Calling payments to judges of up to $10,000 a year for life insurance, new robes, home Internet access and other judicial expenses a form of “backdoor compensation,” a state legislator has introduced a bill to block payouts from the Judicial Supplemental Support Fund.
Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun, R-New Windsor, introduced legislation, A2873, that would prohibit reimbursement from the fund created in 2009 by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman to alleviate the strain on judges who have not had a raise since 1999.
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