Word: overreaching
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...asserting that foreign terrorist suspects held at Guantánamo have an inherent constitutional right to challenge their detention in American courts marks a historic rebalancing of powers between the Executive, Congress and the judiciary - one that many critics believe is a long overdue correction after years of Executive overreach by the Bush Administration. But the ruling's precise practical impact remains unclear and may be relatively slight on the military trials under way at Guantánamo...
...short months later, it was revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had destroyed footage of Al-Qaeda operatives being tortured; again, the language of “homeland security” was indignantly invoked to conceal a program of deception and overreach. The sitting administration will cede nothing on the matter of torture, and should be regarded as complicit—from bottom to very top—in apparent violations of the Geneva Convention and any acceptable standard for the self-professed champion of liberty...
...willing to accept the institution of gay marriage is a sign of the incredible progress that the gay rights movement has made. While this decision will help promote an outcome that I strongly support, the court’s move is founded on the wrong reasons and reflects an overreach of judicial power that rests on a shaky argument...
...while it clearly spoke to some angry dudes with high-speed web connections and time on their hands, it's just as clearly not where America stands today. Paul didn't have a lot of company on the House floor when he rose recently to complain about government overreach in the investigation of the disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after revelations that he had been a customer of a high-end prostitution ring...
...These days Bush's inaugural oratory seems, at the very least, a tragic overreach. It was foolishly messianic. It didn't reflect the reality on the ground, or even the reality of U.S. policy, which still supports oppressive regimes around the world. It came after years of grandiloquent sloganeering: "the war on terror," "the axis of evil," wanton talk of crusades and evildoers and an ill-conceived war with Iraq. Furthermore, the President's speech was based on a simplistic vision of America's role in the world, one firmly rooted in American infallibility. And finally, there was a fundamental...