Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday said the sequester is hurting the judicial branch and that he’s hopeful Congress will provide flexibility.
Roberts, speaking at a conference in West Virginia, noted that the judicial branch of government overall is less than one percent of the federal budget.“You get a whole branch of government under the Constitution for relative pennies, and the idea that we have to be swept along because it is good public policy to cut everybody – I am not commenting on that policy at all – but the notion that we should just be swept along with it I think is really unfounded,” Roberts said of the across-the-board budget cuts.
is this guy kidding, they make two good calls and a couple of mega wrong ones in the last 2 yrs, and thy are being affected by the sequester? they practically gave the republicans carte blanc and now they need their help, aren't they still spinning about those decisions they made for the people?
“The cuts hit us particularly hard because we are made up of people. That is what the judicial branch is. It is not like we are the Pentagon where you can slow up a particular procurement program or a lot of the other agencies. When we have sustained cuts that mean people have to be furloughed or worse and that has a more direct impact on the services that we can provide,” he added, speaking at the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.
how about "we the people" who actually are people and a hell of a lot more that are not getting any flexibility, it might not have been so selfish had you included the people you lord over, but instead show yourself to be no better then those you ask to lighten your load, hell you got no lines at the airport we got nothing.
if it's relative pennies what the fuss? real people are out thousands of dollars.
if it's relative pennies what the fuss? real people are out thousands of dollars.
