They remained peers for life, but ceased to receive judicial salaries at the age of 75.
The disparity between private-sector and judicial salaries grows every year.
Nor is the failure of Congress to meet its commitment to adjust judicial salaries annually for inflation.
He refused to resign and continued to receive his judicial salary.
Congress did not approve an increase in judicial salaries until 1871, after it had returned the size of the Court to nine seats.
Getting Congress to act promptly on judicial salaries may not be easy, if history is any guide.
He said it was simply about a judge who had left his post but continued to collect his judicial salary of $10,500 a year.
Unfortunately, Congress failed this year to raise judicial salaries significantly.
It is obvious that the current approach to judicial salaries does not work.
By the 1830s he no longer needed his judicial salary to live and left it in the state treasury to draw interest at 6%.