State of Judiciary address of 2015 - a general impression

I am starting to analyze the yesterday's "State of the Judiciary 2015" address by Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals.

Here is a general impression.

Nothing unexpected there.

A lot of self-aggrandizing.

A lot of self-praise - how "spectacular" the New York state judiciary is.  How it is the "absolute best" in the country.  How it deserves the best pay in the country.  How a new raise for judges is planned (from the current puny $152,000 for County Judges and $172,000 for Supreme Court judges) despite the "access to justice crisis".

Happens all the time, year in and year out.

Listening to Lippman was like a flashback to my youth in the Soviet Union.

There were also a lot of speeches by the Communist party leaders at that point, a lot of self-aggrandizing, a lot of self-praise, a lot of claims that they are the absolute best for the country.

Quite sickening, actually.  Both then and now.

Different country, different language, allegedly different societal structures.

The same blights.

I will try to analyze the State of the Judiciary address of 2015 issue by issue, in detail, on this blog, in the nearest future.

Stay tuned.