An innocent man cannot be manipulated as easy as a guilty man period laws are passed to make everybody guilty of something, and the man of morality can be influenced out of that guilt. Maybe he has morality, maybe he doesn't. He did something that he knew to be illegal, and as a judge that makes him as malleable as a wet sponge by those who would seek to destroy him. His fear of being exposed as a fraud when he's the Chief Justice of the supreme Court means that he will go to any length to hide exposure