there's probably other things you don't need to go into detail, but you have president -- president bush appointed you. are there other cases that -- there's been other cases, presumably, you've ruled against the administration or the person that appointed you. >> absolutely, mr. chairman. there were a slew of cases on everything from freedom of information act to some of the administrative law cases. >> okay. >> the hamdan one comes to mind because of the importance of the case. i ruled it was unlawful. >> yeah. now, did anyone ask you to make any promises or assurances at all about the way you'd rule in certain cases? >> no.