Activist Asks Court to Reconsider Judicial Pay Raise

  

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - September 27, 2006 -- The man who succeeded in having the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declare lawmakers' midterm pay raises unconstitutional is asking the high court to rethink portions of its landmark ruling.

Gene Stilp filed a motion for reconsideration today that argues the high court lacks sufficient grounds to allow legislators to keep the money they have already collected in the form of "unvouchered expenses."

The Supreme Court on September 14th issued a 5-to-1 ruling that restored pay raises for about a thousand judges, including themselves, based on a state constitutional provision that generally prevents judges' pay from being lowered.

Stilp is also asking the court to reconsider its determination that upheld legislative methods to pass the July 2005 pay-raise law.

He wants the Supreme Court to clarify how state judges' compensation will be linked in the future to federal judges' pay.

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