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...feedback loop is dominated by fear?fear of failure, fear of disappointing teammates, fear of being unworthy?the circuit starts to resemble the classic fight-or-flight response. In the perform-or-perish version, anxious thoughts trigger the release of adrenaline, the hormone that sets the heart racing, primes the muscles to run and puts all the senses on alert. The eyes slip into tunnel vision?the last thing a quarter-back needs when he's relying on peripheral perception to spot a waiting receiver...
Legal scholars on both sides suggest that the most telling stretch of his 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...
Alito's record could give his critics plenty of ammunition. The Third Circuit judge has long been an 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...
Luttig is an unusual White House opponent. As recently as September, he affirmed the President's power to hold Padilla without charges for more than three years as an enemy combatant. And his court--the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, Va.--has been the White House venue of choice for bringing cases because it considers that bench ideologically sympathetic. Undeterred, the Bush Administration last week asked the Supreme Court to overturn Luttig's ruling...
...renew the legislation for an interim period in order to leave time for further debate of its provisions. Even if the current version of the Patriot Act is renewed, the FBI’s access to library records will continue to be contested in the courts. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in early November on two cases, one involving a library in Connecticut, in which the ACLU had successfully argued that the access to personal information under the Patriot Act violates constitutional rights...