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" The dramatic erosion of judicial compensation will inevitably result in a decline in the quality of persons willing to accept a lifetime appointment as a federal judge , " Roberts wrote , adding that the judiciary should not be made up of the independently wealthy or " people for whom the judicial salary represents a pay increase . " Stevens was joined in the dissent by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg , David H. Souter and Stephen G. Breyer.The case is Ayers v. Belmontes , 05-493.The court also announced yesterday that it was declining to review two highly publicized cases.Without comment , justices decided against hearing the appeal of Michael Skakel , the nephew of Ethel Kennedy 's who was convicted of beating to death his Greenwich , Conn ., neighbor Martha Moxley when the two were teenagers 31 years ago . " Taplin orders a coffee and cranes his neck toward the entrance , where , in the next few minutes , half of his little brigade trickles in : Bill Campenni , the retired Air National Guard fighter pilot ; his wife , Kathleen , the Canadian emigre who is now a U.S. citizen ; Diane Bonieskie , the retired schoolteacher ; Jeff Talley , who says he 's losing his aircraft repair job because it 's being outsourced to Mexico ; and Joe , who wo n't provide his last name or say what he does because " who knows who might get the information . " The two newest Supreme Court justices took off the robes and took to the stump last week , providing glimpses of the fresh personalities that will reshape a court that had remained constant for more than a decade.The settings could not have been more different . Until his death in 1994 , all governmental institutions were controlled by Kim Il Sung ( widely known as The Great Leader ) , who had been premier and then president since the country 's inception in 1948 .