Chris Christie's Rough Week

First, two indictments and a plea agreement were unsealed in the "Bridgegate" scandal.

Then, on Wednesday, New Jersey public workers' unions squared off against Gov. Chris Christie's administration before the state Supreme Court. At issue, a pension payment shortfall, in which Christie slashed $1.57 billion from a promised payment to public workers' pension system.

CWA and more than a dozen labor unions made the case that the governor has a constitutionally protected contractual obligation to increase payments into the pension system. In 2011, Christie and state lawmakers passed a law increasing workers' pension contributions, raising the retirement age and cutting cost-of-living adjustments. In return, the state pledged to start making larger payments each year into the pension system to make up for years of next-to-nothing payments. But while workers held up their end of the deal, Christie backed out.

Justice Barry Albin said the state's position is essentially, "the law that was passed, now that it doesn't seem to work to my advantage, I'd like to declare it unconstitutional."

Oral arguments lasted more than three hours.

Steven Weissman, a lawyer for CWA and the AFL-CIO, said, "Every single year (the state doesn't) pay it, the state, not (the law), the state of New Jersey, creates an obligation that has to be paid in the future."

This past March, a state judge ruled that Christie broke the law. But during his state budget address, Christie declared his intention to continue ignoring the 2011 law. The unions sued, and now it's up the state Supreme Court to cast a final decision.