Court Opinion

ID: 6570338
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 19:27:27.207678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:56:52.646514
License: Public Domain

Mb. Justice Bubke,
dissenting.
I dissent. I think the court’s opinion sanctions not only amendment of the Constitution by indirection and implication, but amendment by the legislature. My reason for that conclusion, to which I think no answer has been made, may be thus briefly stated: There is not a word in the Constitution about a juvenile judge or his salary. Hence if he has any salary it must be provided solely by statute. During every minute that court has been in existence the Constitution has forbidden the application of changes in salaries so fixed to persons then in office. This judge was in office when the statute was passed, hence he can not take the increase during that term. Mr. Justice Bock concurs herein.