mr. malcom: probably so! [laughter] mr. malcom: let's stick with reflections on the last 25 years. perhaps you will mention your maritime opinion. opinions you have written over the years. i remember the first time i read an opinion of yours, it just captured me. it was in 1999. city of chicago versus where the court struck down an anti-gang ordinance. you wrote this passionate dissent about the suppose it right to loiter of the 2%, condemning 98% of the residents. it just hit me and has stuck with me. i'm curious, what opinions over the course of your career has stuck with you, the ones you are most proud of our profound? justice clarence: i don't know, i think there are different justice clarence: i don't know, i think there are different types of opinions. i don't really see them as trophies. i don't think about them that way. there are opinions that i think about, usually the ones that are really hard. the bettis opinion, i really agonize over, and agonize throughout the summer. she lost her car, the government took her car and her husband's car, that really bothered me a lot.

mr. malcom: a civil war reenactor? justice clarence: no, just a guy. he's running around. he has this fake parchment paper with an opinion on it here he said, i need you to sign this. he said, it is your federal maritime commission opinion. [laughter] justice clarence: i said, why are you here with that? he said, that's what this is all about. [laughter] he said, i want to thank you, because i can understand what you are saying. and he said, i read all your opinions because i can understand them. i think we are obligated to make the constitution and what we write about the constitution accessible to our fellow citizens. empowersm: that it people by giving them a sense that the constitution is really there is, and ought to be accessible. justice clarence: it is theirs. i think that we hide it from them when we write in language that is inaccessible. if you think about it, i had a buddy of mine who was a wonderful, wonderful friend, who was quadriplegic. curvedber before you had cuts, a curve that high -- curb that i was like the great wall of china. that kind of building wa