is this common law rule about -- raise judy codding, litigation which is fine, but it's not part of the constitution or anything. this is an important issue. you want to get it settled. by which a fuss about that? especially for 40 pages? >> this'll be the last question. >> so judge posner given your feelings about some of the members of the judiciary and the opinions about the right, what is the role that you think president should be playing ideally when the judiciary's reaching decisions on what role if any should over be playing? >> i have a very low opinion of -- what i don't like about the legal system is it so backward looking, like president of the constitution or constitution, the original constitution ratified in 1788, that's 228 years ago. and smart people at a time like a jefferson said look, you can't write a constitution that's going to be meaningful in the future, in the distant future. in fact, he thought you were supposed to have a new constitution every 30 years. that, of course, didn't sell. but a number of the people said yeah, it's not, you can't treat this as s