What was your motivation to become a church and devote your life to law? My father was a lawyer and law has been in our family and it's always been something I thought about in my college. The university I thought I'd like to be a lawyer. A lawyer is a person who helps other people. There's a certain about that but you also have to use your head. So I tell the law students it eats a head and a heart. Everybody has a heart and everybody has a head. But if you don't have a good head as well as a good heart you won't be something as a lawyer. So it's perfect and combines the truth. Be a federal judge in this country that is by as an England is something you do in mid career. You see in your 40s or 50s and federal judges appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate of the United States. There are trial judges and appeals judges in the Supreme Court. I was appointed the Court of Appeals in 1980 by President Carter and was confirmed and I served in Boston which is in charge of that region which is several states there in Puerto Rico for 14 years. And then he's appointed the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1994. The job of the Supreme Court in the United States is to interpret and apply federal law that's laws passed by Congress and the Constitution of the United States. Typically when lower courts have disagreed about the meaning of a text or the application of a constitutional provision we do have to find a word of what they mean. Congress can change the meaning of the text because they can write a new text. If it's a statute, if it's the Constitution they can't. And therefore this court in typical year has around seven years okay says probably maybe half or a third of those are constitutional. And some of our cases might seem incredibly trivial what is the meaning of a comma in the internal revenue code. Or they could involve a major constitutional question such as whether the prisoners in Guantanamo have the right to go to court to complain that they are being held unlawfully. Or as in 1954 whether it was constitutional Constitution says that every person is entitled to equal protection of a law. So in the south of the United States as well now in 1954 who races were segregated and those who were black had much worse conditions than those who were white because they were a little bit black South Africa and apartheid. And the court in 1954 held that that was contrary to the Constitution. And then it took a long time to make that effective. Still to this day not completely effective but the legal apparatus that surrounded that incredible really terrible system of segregation was gradually dismantled over time by the courts.