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Publication Date

2010

Abstract

I raised my right hand and I took an oath of office in a brand new federal courthouse that would eventually become . .. the Pete V. Domenici Courthouse, named after our senior senator who retired after thirty-six years of service and who, as the story goes, I will tell you more about. I didn't really fully realize the substance of what I was swearing to until years later when it became abundantly clear that the oath that I took was to the Constitution. It wasn't to my party, it wasn't to my senator, it wasn't to a specific ideology, but it was to the rule of law-something that I've been privileged to speak [about] to foreign nationals in many countries over these past few years.

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