Amendment rights to businesses for the first time. We could draw some connections here but your not here to listen to me talk about the court you are here for linda greenhouse. Please join me in welcoming her to politics and pro. Its really a treat to be back here. Ive been here for a couple of the other books that you heard about. This is my first actual book talk with this book which came out and was published last tuesday. There is no better place to launch a book like that its a book about washington its a book about the relationship between the Supreme Court and our politics so its much more timely actually then the coauthor and i imagined when we launched this project about five years ago into be here on what i think is the most dangerous place inside the beltway. No one can walk in without spending more money than the anticipated. Im gonna start by just reading a couple paragraphs that will give you a bit of the flavor what he said. Hes had a long scheduled scandinavian cruise.