That is a very important question. Why are judges in a position that is not comparable to that of elected officials or members of the bureaucracy? They are in a different position, I would submit, for at least three reasons.
The first, as I've just mentioned, is that their expenses are not, in the main, discretionary. The second is that they are currently subject to third party verification. I have to insist on this. Every judicial expense has to be submitted to an official whose very existence is—