Justice Quote by Robert Duncan

"There is no dispute" is doing the heaviest lifting here: it’s a rhetorical bulldozer meant to flatten dissent before it can even clear its throat. Robert Duncan frames the issue not as policy but as consensus, a move that quietly shifts the burden of proof onto anyone who dares to question it. If you disagree, you’re not simply holding a different budget priority; you’re violating an alleged shared reality.

The phrasing also reveals an anxious awareness of how judicial compensation plays in public. Judges occupy a strange cultural perch: expected to be above politics, yet funded by it; presumed impartial, yet constantly scrutinized for bias. Saying they "need" a raise isn’t just an argument about salaries, it’s a claim about institutional dignity. Underpaid judges become a civic vulnerability: easier to lose to private-sector talent, harder to recruit broadly, and, in the insinuated worst case, more susceptible to the soft pressures that corrode public trust. The quote banks on that fear without naming it.

Context matters because pay raises are never just pay raises. They’re proxies for what a society is willing to spend to keep its systems credible. Duncan’s line reads like it’s aimed at legislators and taxpayers simultaneously: a preemptive rebuttal to populist reflexes ("Why should they get more?") and a nudge to treat judicial independence as infrastructure, not a perk. The subtext: if you want fair courts, you have to fund the people who run them, even when it’s politically inconvenient.