First of all, the statistics that are referred to are statistics from 2000 and are not available to us. But there's no doubt that it has been the case for many years that there are many more applicants for judicial office than there are judicial offices. The question is, what is the appropriate level of compensation, and what do you do to ensure that the best and the brightest are in the pool from which candidates can be selected?
On October 24th, 2006. See this statement in context.