i mean, this isjust a way of interpreting the law. l it's not... it's, yeah — yeah, it's not a political thing. i it's become terriblyj politicised, though. but the other thing is, steve, that's most interesting to an outsider, i heard an american network on thursday night debating, "well, it's going to be a black woman this time becausejoe biden has said that, and maybe it should be a hispanic man or woman the time after that" — there's a sense in which almost the culture wars that they are supposed to try and stay above are being translated onto the court itself. well, is it? i mean, this term 'culture wars�* is pretty imprecise, it seems to me. i mean, president trump used patronage to put in all kinds of people who he felt reflected his kind of views and i imagine biden will use this space to do the same. now, there might be some tokenism in it in terms of whether it's hispanic or whatever but presumably, whoever gets appointed