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We are just doing what the law allows us here to do.

That demon is a law of our own creation, and it is called the Presidential Records Act.

It is incredibly frustrating. In those circumstances, we look for a demon.

I am deeply sympathetic to the frustration people feel when they do not have access to documents they want.

We are not dealing in a lawless environment here. We are dealing here with the Presidential Records Act.

It is not fair to this witness or any other witness in any other proceeding anywhere to not give the witness a copy and allow him to respond to it while he is being questioned about it.

There is no reason why it should not be something that we can discuss in public.

I do not see all discriminatory transfers are not unlawful under the Civil Rights Act.

We are judges. We do not wear a partisan label as judges.

I think that all maybe stems from the same philosophical understanding that we are imperfect beings, and that we divide power, and that we make sure that no one person in a jury situation or other situations where our liberty can be…

If there were some perfect group of people, we would put all the power in that one body, but because we are imperfect, putting all the power in that one body would be, as Senator Klobuchar was saying, the definition of tyranny.

If we were angels, we would not need government.

The accumulation of all power in one body is the very definition of tyranny.

The Presidency is not a monarchy is a very important one.

We are shirking our own responsibility because we are making lawmakers rather than laws, and we are also consolidating into one body the power to make and enforce laws, which is not only something that can lead to tyranny, it is the very…

With its approval rating that ranges between 9 and 11 percent, making us slightly less popular than Raul Castro in America

Some of my colleagues do not like the environmental laws Congress has actually passed.

Do you believe that it is important for a judge to interpret and apply the laws that Congress has actually passed rather than seeking to make up or change the law if the judge does not like what the Congress has done?