with them, they fire the client unceremoniously in my experience. uh-huh. when the proper case comes up, you see this flood of special interest ameci with terrible transparency into who was behind them n. one case, we tracked one of these big funding groups behind 11 different amicus briefs, the whole amicus thing begins to have a really rank odor to it, the end of the day, when things start to go hay wire in my view, when you go back to 5-4 decisions i talked about yesterday, i think is the most heartbreaking thing that i experience in my political life. i used to argue in front of appellate courts. it was what i did, not at your level, but in front of the first circuit a lot, been in front of the supreme court once, rhode island supreme court more than i can remember, i kind of thought i was a reasonably good appellate lawyer. and the idea that our supreme