solitary opinions and that sort of thing, but once he became the senior associate justice, and since he happened to be on the liberal side of the bench by then, he was really in charge of kind of marshalling the liberals. he became quite strategic, i think. as you mentioned in your kind of open that you gave at the top of the hour, that he wrote one and actually he wrote a couple of the major guantanamo decisions in which he was able to write in a way that got justice kennedy's vote, for instance, and form a majority for the right of the guantanamo detainees to get before a federal judge. and he -- you know, he became more strategic. i'll just say one more thing about that. i mean, it's true that the court changed around him, but he wouldn't have denied -- he didn't deny that his own views had changed, for instance.