It is the ultimate “pointy-head” office, as one former top Office of Legal Counsel attorney puts it, and its rafts of memorandums are almost always as dry and to the point as, say, its opinion on “The Applicability of the Fourth Amendment to Use Electronic Beepers in Tracking Bank Robbery Bait Money,” which Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr. helped pen in 1986.
It was the chance to wrestle with these and similar lively legal issues that inspired Alito to write his now-infamous 1985 application for a deputy assistant attorney general slot at the OLC.
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