associated with the two principal theories of this book -- textualism and originalism -- it is frank easterbrook. if i had to pick somebody to replace me on the supreme court, it would be frank. he and i tend to see things the same because we are both playing the same principles of textualism and originalism. >> frank easterbrook, seventh circuit judge, chicago illinois, your brother. >> chief judge. >> your brother, how does that happen in a family? i assume you are very different in your thinking. >> not so much. politically, maybe a little bit different. i am very proud of my older brother. i am also proud of my younger brother who is a teacher in fort worth. frank is, i would say more libertarian than conservative. libertarianism has a lot of appeal to me or anybody who thinks about it. i would probably be to the left of him on some issues. what i admire about frank, he is incredibly logical. he not only knows the legal profession backward and forward, but he uses the detached logic to arrive at conclusions. having read emerson and thoreau, i think detached logic is the best way. he is a nom

the same, because we're both applying the same principles of textualism and originalism. >> frank easterbrook, second circuit judge, illinois, your brother. >> how does that happen in the family that you couldn't -- i assumed that you're very different in your think ing? >> not so much. politically, might be a little different. i'm very proud of my older brother. proud of my younger brother who's a teacher at tcu in ft. worth. frank is more libertarianism than conservative. libertarianism has a lot of appeal to it, to anybody who thinks about it. i would be to the left of him on some issues. but i admire about frank is he's logical and he not only knows the legal profession and legal precedent, but he uses it to attach logic to the answers to questions. having read thoreau and emerson when i was a child, he was a nominee of president reagan. he's from that era. a good friend of robert bosching. just gave a speech to robert bork a couple of months ago. he's way left of me. you can imagine what our conversations were like. >> what were the parents like, their politics? >> mother who died when i