The rules would quite possibly prevent their consent to an audit from qualifying if they have a criminal issue.

This baroque dichotomy between their sublime aspirations of judicial excellence and the ridiculous rules to which they have to conform while they pirouette to the demands of politicians and titans of the bar must bend the minds of the best and idealistic judicial candidates like a pretzel. We are destroying the very institution we are trying to save.

Obviously, if he has broken rules or done something that's wrong, he will have to stand the consequences, ... Meet the Press.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Washington... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.