Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., and a group of former members of Congress can move forward with a federal lawsuit seeking to recoup cost-of-living adjustments, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The plaintiffs say Congress and the president have violated the 27th Amendment with laws that repeatedly blocked the annual cost-of-living adjustments to lawmaker salaries set out in a 1989 law.
The 27th Amendment states that no law can change lawmaker compensation until an election and the seating of a new Congress. The Justice Department sought to dismiss the lawsuit.
