there s probably other things you don t need to go into detail, but you have president president bush appointed you. are there other cases that there s been other cases, presumably, you ve ruled against the administration or the person that appointed you. absolutely, mr. chairman. there were a slew of cases on everything from freedom of information act to some of the administrative law cases. okay. the hamdan one comes to mind because of the importance of the case. i ruled it was unlawful. yeah. now, did anyone ask you to make any promises or assurances at all about the way you d rule in certain cases? no.