sometimes professors say things that are interesting. i think that he will be back. i think that he has the potential to be an outstanding juri jurist, and we had a setback here, but it does not mean thsy because we have had successes this year. i think that we ve had some real success this year as relates to nominations. just this afternoon senate majority leader saying that he thought lui would be back. just hours later we learned that he has now written to president obama asking to have his name withdrawn from the ninth circuit nomination because of the filibuster against him. now that that barrier s been broken. now that republicans have started using their minority power to block nominees that