as many of you know dean aleinkoff tenure as dean will in this week as he goes off to geneva to serve as deputy high commissioner for refugees. it is a we are fortunate that judy will be working as the active dean. now we have come first full circle. look into this second georgetown law aspen institute symposium. we selected the two cases that our pals are going to discuss today because both are about money and the elections. last term's caperton case was about when judges should refuse themselves from hearing a case and they have received donations from a party in the case. in caperton a five million dollar donation was not deemed by the recipient to be sufficient grounds to recuse himself from hearing the appeal of the case where the contributing company was the litigant. the supreme court disappeared disagree. opened the door to increase expenditures under federal election law. the reasoning will require the same result in the state. we are faced this situation where more money will go in to both federal and state elections and particularly of concern to state court elections. that