Why not?
He has fourteen years on the bench ahead of him, and ten thousand other lawyers would be willin' to put up twice as much to be in his shoes.

Now, I ain't sayin' that we sell nominations.

That's a different thing altogether.

There's no auction and no regular biddin'.

The man is picked out and somehow he gets to understand what's expected of him in the way of a contribution, and he ponies up--all from gratitude to the organization that honored him, see?
Let me tell you an instance that shows the difference between sellin' nominations and arrangin' them in the way I described.