too much power and that is music to conservative s ears. so they would like it if gorsuch got the nomination. hardiman as you say has a little more of a mixed background. he s from massachusetts, he drove a cab for his father s cab company. went to notre dame in georgetown, not a harvard law school graduate. gorsuch knows washington. his mother was the administrator r if the environmental protection agency under reagan. first woman to have that job. and he was a senate page while she came back here. he also clerked for justice byron white who was another coloradan like neil gorsuch and anthony kennedy. hardiman has not been a clerk. one has trial judge experience, the other doesn t. so there are differences between the two, but i would say of the two on balance scores gorsuch is slightly more conservative. the city to watch. i grew up around there. i like getting that one in there. pete williams in washington, thank you for that. take a quick break he. up next, the opposition amid