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.
Kaufman states the importance of judicial commitment to the Constitution for Supreme Court nominees.
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The panic of 2008 has subsided, but it has been replaced by the gnawing pain of countless men and women who can't find work, who can't keep their homes, and who don't know whether their economic story will ever end in recovery.
Widespread cheating and fraud of the sort that drove the speculative housing and derivatives securities bubbles are anathema to public confidence in the markets.
I do not want a single innocent person to go to jail or be criminally indicted for any reason.
It's only fitting that, at a crisis past, a government should set aside its crisis authorities.
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