confident he has not overlooked any shortcomings of the majority opinion and he's got a kind of pricklier, more polemical way of writing than roberts does. i agree with jeff that roberts is a very fine writer. then the list stops. i couldn't point to anybody else. >> it's pretty -- >> charlie: somebody once said there is nobody in second place. >> it's a tough race for second, yeah. >> charlie: how is justice roberts doing as a chief justice? >> remember that he's got just the one vote. >> charlie: right. >> and he doesn't have a lot of power beyond some power to assign opinions. i think he's well liked inside the court as an administrator. that he's fair. that he assigns things in a sensible way. i think what we saw last term, he turns out to be in the majority more than any other justice, he takes that away from kennedy because he's trying hard, i think, to find exon ground with people, that there is a category of case that is he really cares about -- campaign finance. gun rights. the exclusionary rule. and on those he will push very hard. but in a whole variety of other cases i think h