one opinion is significant and underdiscussed is against alabama. this was an opinion he issued early on when he was associate justice. and it involved striking down a law that even though slavery had been abolished under the 13th amendment, it wasn't clear whether labor required in response to debt, or in compensation of debt. so he struck down this law that had allowed for peanage, and said it wasn't relative, that the party involved was african-american, but said anyone shouldn't be subjected to this requirement of labor for debt. that was one important decision. then, of course, he had a lot of important decisions that he authored during his time as chief justice. and the -- you know, among them were decisions on both sides of the spectrum in terms of striking down economic legislation or upholding it. one case that i think was especially crucial is it signaled his willingness to understand the flexibility that was required by economic legislation pretty early on in his term, was the case of home building and loan association against blazedal. t

fact, student loan is the biggest source of american debt after mortgages and yet it is totally underdiscussed come to this issue? >> well, they asked me. i have personal experience in that i have nieces and nephews who, some who are still in college and getting phone calls to pay on some of these loans because they took really bad loans, and i have a niece and nephew out of college who don't have jobs and have to pay on these student loans and one of them has a loan that will not allow them to defer. so college finance center.org which is launching today is a terrific resource to research your student loans so you go into it with your eyes wide open and you know what will be expected of you. if you are saddled or crippled with this debt when you graduate, you can go to this resource and you will see ways to help, to augment your payments, click resources for you to go to to figure out how to pay this debt off. >> we were focused on the student loan debacle. it wasn't quite a debacle. call it fisticuffs because they figured it out. >> for a year. yeah. >> for one year. amazing how previously b