because his billionaire friends were paying to have portraits put up, have movies made, have books done. and it really does look as though this effort to counter the sort of -- around rbg wasn't something that happened because americans are in love with clarence thomas. it's that very, very wealthy people wanted clarence thomas to be a cult figure. and in some sense, the piece of mark stern and i wrote this week suggested it also contributed to the feeling the justices alito and thomas have alleged, that they're bulletproof. they're so perfect, so god like that they don't need to be regulated at all. >> and that gets to a great segue to my next question. yesterday, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, raskin, johnson, they wrote to the doj requesting that the attorney general opened an investigation into clarence thomas and his potential violation of the ethics of