The courts aren't just this separate body floating out there, accountable to no one. The Judicial Conference is created by who? The United States Congress. The Judicial Conference imposes rules on the judges, and so do we through jurisdictional requirements. So there is an interplay here. And the justice is saying nobody can tell us what to do about anything is simply dead wrong. And I think it's a real discredit to the Court. (15:11–15:19)
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Asserts that the Judicial Conference and Congress impose rules on judges through jurisdictional requirements.
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