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WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle threatened the independence of administrative law judges (ALJs) to render decisions without fear of removal or retaliation. See DOJ news release. The Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ) representing nearly 1,000 federal administrative law judges says the DOJ’s position is an overreach and not supported by long-established precedent, statutes, or recent Supreme Court decisions designed to protect these judges from arbitrary removal.

Most civilian feds got a 2% federal pay raise for 2025, but certain senior-level feds working in some locality pay areas will see reduced pay raises.

By Drew Friedman@dfriedmanWFED

January 2, 2025 6:22 pm

President Joe Biden opted for a 2% average federal pay raise for civilian employees in 2025, but some employees in the higher grades and steps of the General Schedule will see an even smaller pay adjustment.

Although most federal employees will receive a pay bump somewhere around the 2% figure when they open their first paychecks of the new year, senior-level feds working in certain locality pay areas will continue to experience pay compression — a decades-old phenomenon in the federal pay system.

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By Suzanne Monyak
Reporter

Immigration and Social Security judges are among those who would gain greater protections under draft legislation circulating on Capitol Hill amid efforts to safeguard those left out of judicial security legislation enacted in 2022.

It’s been two years since President Joe Biden signed legislation to limit public disclosure and sale of personally identifying information about federal judges and their family members. The bill, known as the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, was passed in the wake of the murder of a New Jersey federal judge’s 20-year-old son by an attorney who posed as a delivery man.

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The Association of Administrative Law Judges Calls Unlawful the Department of Justice’s Threats to Eliminate Judges’ Protections from Arbitrary Removal

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The Association of Administrative Law Judges Calls Unlawful the Department of Justice’s Threats to Eliminate Judges’ Protections from Arbitrary Removal

After 2% Federal Pay Raise for 2025, Pay Compression Spreads a Little Further

Left-Out Judges Eye Protections Two Years After New Security Law

After 2% Federal Pay Raise for 2025,
Pay Compression Spreads a Little Further

Left-Out Judges Eye Protections
Two Years After New Security Law