If you want to be a writer, leave the court and become a writer. If you want to directly invest in the stock market (instead of via a blind trust), leave the court. If you want to accept a quarter of a million dollar "gift" from your "friend" (who just happens to regularly have business before the court), leave the court and go camping or whatever the fuck.
It's exhausting how degraded everything about American institutions has become, including one that's supposed to be above the fray.