ilya shapiro is author of "supreme disorder," which is available on paperback on tuesday. , welcome. good to see you here. historic term for the supreme court. did the court surprise you with its ending? >> the court finally colessed; has, the conservative majority that has long been promised, expected, feared, vaunted finally came together this term. and i don't know whether it was terribly surprising, but it was a little breathtaking to see it actually happen. this is what, you know, many people thought would happen once all of these justices, particularly the trump-appointed ones, got on the bench, but it didn't happen last year on the bench, it didn't happen right when brett kavanaugh was confirmed. but here with all of this constellation of issues that you listed there, it really took a significant jump. and, notably, even when john roberts -- or anybody else, so-called defected to the left, there was still enough votes to have a more originalist, textualist, conservative orientation. paul: all right. i think a lot of our listeners wonder what originalist means, how do