justices and judges are in the words of justice breyer political junior varsity. but judge levy and i have a very different experience and what we wrote in our op-ed piece. i was on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. circuit for 15 years and never once, not once did i see a colleague issue a decision based on his or her partisan preferences. we have different views about how to read a statute, how to interpret the constitution. those are very real differences and we debate them vigorously but never once did i see someone make a decision based on partisan lines. i think it is really important that the american people know that it is not how judges work. several years ago president trump famously criticized a decision rendered against his administration and dismissed the judge as an obama judge. the chief justice in a remarkable rebuke spoke out immediately. we don t have obama judges, we