Sotomayor Can Get By On Justice's Pay

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor says
she's lived on a judge's salary for 17 years, and she can, in her
words, "suffer through more of it."
Supreme Court justices make a little more than $200,000 a year.
Sotomayor was responding Thursday to questions from Republican
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who asked if the nominee can
continue to live on a salary that Sotomayor had earlier said was
much less than she was making in private practice.
Sotomayor said pay is a "difficult" issue for many judges, who
she said haven't received a significant raise in more than 20
years.
But Sessions pointed out that the Supreme Court salary is about
four times the size of the average family income in the nation. And
he told her that if she can't live on that, she shouldn't take the
job.

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