{"id":1837,"date":"2010-02-10T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2010-02-10T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:49:01","slug":"judicial-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Judicial efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0ran across this interesting statistic in Chief Justice Roberts&#8217; annual report of the Federal Judiciary for the year 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8220;The Judiciary, including the Supreme Court, other federal courts, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and the Federal Judicial Center, received a total appropriation in fiscal year 2008 of $6.2 billion. That represents a mere two-tenths of 1% of the United States\u2019 total $3 trillion budget. Two-tenths of 1%! That is all we ask for one of the three branches of government\u2014the one charged &#8220;to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals.&#8221; Alexander Hamilton, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman;\">Federalist No. 78<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/publicinfo\/year-end\/2008year-endreport.pdf\">Link to 2008 Annual Report<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0ran across this interesting statistic in Chief Justice Roberts&#8217; annual report of the Federal Judiciary for the year 2008: &#8220;The Judiciary, including the Supreme Court, other federal courts, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and the Federal Judicial Center, received a total appropriation in fiscal year 2008 of $6.2 billion. That represents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}