Article III of the Constitution seeks to protect judicial independence, partly through a guarantee of life tenure and partly through a clause that prohibits the diminution of judges' quot;compensationquot;. The Compensation Clause does not address the subject of taxation, but it has always been...

Does the constitutional requirement that the quot;compensationquot; of federal judges quot;not be diminished during their Continuance in officequot; preclude Congress from subjecting sitting judges to the social security taxes from which they had previously been exempt? In Hatter v. United...