us today is, in fact, a view that you have expressed about judging? >> well, i don't think i've written anything about judging in that way. but i think that you can look to my life, that you can look to the way i interact with people. i mean, my deanship was a good example. but the way i have acted as solicitor general, as well. the kind of consideration that i've given to different arguments. the kind of fairness that i've shown in making decisions. i think that those would all be, you know, appropriate things to look to, to try to get some understanding of this aspect of me. >> okay. let me ask about some of the bench memos. i talked to you a little bit about that when you were in my office, as well. and obviously, we only have time to mention a few. but what i was suggesting is that your advice to your boss seemed to be not just pragmatic, but almost political in advising him either to -- to vote to take