My father was a pilot, and I grew up around airports. I see my job as an air traffic controller. And I see an unending line of airplanes in the flight pattern waiting for their touch-and-go in Delaware on their way to Washington to the Federal Circuit, to tell you the truth,” Robinson told the committee.
When you have this complex, burdensome process that you do over and over and over again, with dwindling resources, and certainly nobody patting you on the back, the best you can do is get an affirmance by a federal circuit generally on different reasoning than the ones you’ve given them, it gets difficult to feel as though what you’re doing makes a difference.