i think about donald verrilli is he was as you suggested a pretty well-known, respected advocate before it got to the solicitor general's office. i remember listening to the arguments in the affordable care act case and the arizona immigration case, thinking to myself, boy, this guy is not doing well at all. i think most people listen to the moral arc of his body got his tail kicked by the justices. i remember turning off the oral our threats and thinking to myself this case usually much more interesting. then i to stop and think for a couple days, what does the book said about this? the book says the sg is going to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. honestly i think he did that in these cases. if that of any other attorney the day the kind of performance he did, i'm sure they would have won that case. because this is an article about of the u.s., i think they're able to get away with a lack of a better expression more than of the attorneys would. >> does the solicitor general's office had any other duties besides laser focus on supreme court cases? >> they have some duties. one of