>> criticized your minority in the face of morrison. >> again, we're talking about independent agencies, so the traditional independent agencies on the one hand and the old independent council that is long gone on the other. the independent counsel regime, this committee and the congress as a whole decided was a serious mistake. senator durbins words, unrestrained, unaccountable, unconstitutional -- >> what i'm concerned about, judge, is not so much whether there's members of this committee or other justices that viewed the independent counsel statues as a serious mistake but whether you view morrison v. olson and the holding there's. in morrison v. olson as you know, the court upheld a restriction on the president's power to fire the independent counsel. by a vote of 7 to 1. it's an opinion written by your