it's impossible to read his opinion and not understand that this is a serious intellectual and independent judge. >> and he got -- >> can i speak to that? of course he's a serious intellectual judge but that's not to say that the other things would be relevant. in the general argument, by numbers there has been more. that's kind of a silly argument. it's a very small percentage that was turned over. >> record was clear in those opinions on significant issues of regulation and constitutional structure and so on. it's not hard to see what his basic principles are, there's a full record of a decade of service on the bench. >> and there are a number of conservatives who say -- there are conservatives who say even they are worried about what they have seen in his work because, listen. he says what he is going to do is call balls and strikes and his clique say that's what he does to regardless of what the outcome is going to be. that's why everyone is not happy