I think this is all the ability to know you just cannot have two different sets of rules for people, and if you are powerful and you have got money and you have got good accountants and good lawyers, you can get away with something that normal people cannot.
Kaufman emphasizes fairness in rules for powerful individuals versus ordinary people.
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If they are not committed to the limited role of a Federal judge, if they are not aware that they must serve, as their oath says, under the Constitution, not above it, then they are not qualified to serve on the bench.
But as a general matter, I think that you cannot be cowed by the possibility of losing, and we do enough good things and bring enough good cases that we can take a few losses if the cause is right.
You are one standard, bright, consistent star that we know we can always turn to.
we have got to get away from this too-big-to-fail. It is bad in so many different ways in terms of the concept.
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