students who praise him and worked to support his nomination to the supreme court. he is very much an establishment conservative, someone who is always working across the aisle, trying to build bridges. his philosophy is based on the idea that we must allow democratic legislators to take the lead. fred what did he get? he was trying to build bridges and doing so much. he was literally hired as a lecturer by elena kagan, another supreme court justice. she hired him and went out of her way because she so respected him as a journalist and a thinker. then suddenly someone who devoted so much of his life to building these bridges, this