Congratulations on your nomination and welcome all of your biggest fans here to the hearing here today. I guess my first question is, you know, A federal district judge sitting in a courtroom deciding an individual case is probably the most powerful person in the country insofar as that particular subject matter is concerned. So why would you want to give all that up to be on an appellate court and not be able to. Why would you relinquish all that power? (00:24–00:40)
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Asserts that a federal district judge is highly powerful in their courtroom.
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