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...watched workers weld vehicle components together by hand?an assembly scene out of the '50s. But after his son test-drove a few models, Rapton started to think he could sell China's cars in the U.S. Setting aside doubts about Hebei's quality control, he signed a "memo of understanding" to negotiate an import deal. "It might take them a year or two to get started," he says, "but I'm willing to take my chances...
...biography is the quick run from 1985 to '90, beginning when he took the Office of Legal Counsel job and ending with his elevation to his current post on the circuit court. Colleagues say he was admired for collegiality. When two of his young aides had to finish a memo for the next day, he stayed with them past midnight and went to the law library to fact-check the memo they wrote, a task usually left for much more junior aides. But at his new job at Justice, what his co-workers remember above all is that he lived...
...power of the presidency in ways that worry congressional Democrats today. He was part of the Litigation Strategy Working Group, a team of about a dozen officials that Attorney General Edwin Meese appointed to help embed Reagan's philosophy more deeply into the legal system. In a 1986 memo to the group, Alito proposed to have Reagan issue "signing statements," defining exactly how the President understood a law's meaning, when he approved a bill that Congress had passed. Reagan issued such statements occasionally, but the Bush Administration has dramatically expanded their use. In one issued two weeks ago, which...
...advocate of the unitary-executive concept, a constitutional interpretation that is a favorite of Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's, which argues that the President should have nearly total control of Executive Branch agencies and resist any incursion on that power by Congress. And in a 1984 memo recently released by the National Archives, Alito--at the time a lawyer with the Reagan Administration Justice Department--argued that government officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps can be immune from lawsuits. The case in question arose in 1970, when then Attorney General John Mitchell allowed the FBI to wiretap...
...hostile than it was with [recently confirmed Chief Justice John] Roberts," an official involved in the nomination tells TIME. "But like any nominee to the court, you're not going to see him predict any cases or make any commitments to the committee." As for that two-decade-old memo, it was a domestic matter that has "no nexus, no connection, no link" to the current debate, says Steve Schmidt, a White House aide helping shepherd Alito through the confirmation process...