You have it wrong. These 54 decisions where she is on one side thats because the press focuses on the 25 of the heady cages, the constitutional cases. Most of what we are doing is trying to interpret dense statutes congress passed, very difficult to parse. On those cases, there isnt the usual lineup the press expects to see in the mostwatched cases. So we agree on many procedure cases. Not always. You got one wrong last year. [laughter] and also, i have to Say Something else. We both care about the way opinions are crafted. Its not easy to write an opinion. I think you care very much about how it is said and said why. The way we say it is quite different. One reason we became such good friends on the d c circuit was we were both former academics. Harry edwards was another academic on the court. But in academia, when you wrote a law review article, you would circulate it to your colleagues and i would make comments, helpful comments, not just this is wrong. But theres an additional poin
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