Pennsylvania judges decide they alone will get raises

I love this one:

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court partly reinstated a controversial raise yesterday that state legislators repealed last year after a popular outcry.

But the ruling said that only judges should receive the raise, not the legislators or other government workers who originally qualified.

The raise, which was passed at 2 in the morning on July 7, 2005, just before the General Assembly adjourned for the summer, was viewed by critics as sneaky and self-serving. It produced a reaction across the state that led to a Supreme Court justice’s being voted out of office in November and the defeat of 17 legislators the following May.

In response to the public outcry, legislators repealed the raise in November.