state of alabama. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. as a nonlawyer i look at u.s. v nixon and a handful of other cases and see that as a consensus case. in the legal community, in the legal world, is u.s. v nixon a controversial thing? it was a unanimous supreme court ruling. it s not controversial and by brown versus board, it s what people agree on and that s why it was shocking to see federal nominees refusing to affirm the principipals of brown. same for nixon. it s revered as a case that was correctly decided. this transcript that has just been put forth as part of the documentation around judge kavanaugh s confirmation for the supreme court, this was not him refusing to answer a question