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...loosening of concerns in one of the places you?d think would be most paranoid about security: a commercial flight. Over the holidays, the FAA temporarily resurrected the post-911 rule forbidding passengers from leaving their seats during the final half hour of any flight headed into Washington?s Reagan National Airport. Inconveniently, the crew of my Reagan-bound flight failed to warn passengers of the approaching limit (as was commonly done), until we had passed it, leaving me not only in need of a bathroom break, but also holding a sealed bag of dirty diapers...
...given him by the founders. He can use the power as leverage to affect legislation or kill it. But he cannot legislate himself or interpret the law counter to Congress's intent. Signing statements were therefore relatively rare instances of presidential nuance or push-back. In eight years, Ronald Reagan used signing statements to challenge 71 legislative provisions, and Bill Clinton...
...offensive. And while it might seem that Kennedy’s disassociation with the Owl was politically motivated, it was the most appropriate decision he could have made. Alito, meanwhile, has touted his membership in the CAP as recently as the 1980s while applying for a position in the Reagan Administration. His continued advocacy of CAP’s objectives long after his college years, as well as the role it played in his political career, suggest that his CAP membership is far more relevant than Kennedy’s payment of membership dues to the Owl. Moreover, the nature...
Sitting to the right of Tribe was Charles Fried, the Beneficial professor of law at Harvard and the former solicitor general in the Reagan administration. While in that post, Fried briefly served as Alito’s boss. In his testimony, Fried said that he did not believe Alito would launch a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. But, he twice repeated, “I could be quite wrong...
...Reagan administration no doubt had a point of view about the law, just as did the FDR administration in 1933, or the JFK administration in 1961,” Fried said. “That is not unusual. That’s what elections are about...