In November, the state banned protests held without government approval, giving security forces and prosecutors broad authorization to go after all traces of political opposition.
After nearly two years of working with the Bush administration, Congress had a very good idea of how Mr. Bush viewed the world, what advisers he listened to, and what he was likely to do with American troops if Congress gave him a broad authorization to go to war.
Based on this, one might have expected broad authorization to be a clear favourite when specific scenarios were presented.
In 2011, he and Udall warned cryptically that the government possessed a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act that amounted to a broader authorization for domestic surveillance than Congress approved.
Now, Raul Castro's government has announced that half a million state employees will be terminated and that self-employment will be expected to pick up the slack, with a broader authorization of licenses and more flexible contracting mechanisms.
"Just as the president has broad discretion to decide whether to allow undocumented individuals to get a temporary reprieve from deportation," Mr. Yale-Loehr said, "he also has broad authority to decide whether to grant them work authorization and health benefits".
CHIP will receive $2.8 billion to continue funding through March, but not the broader authorization governors and advocates have been seeking.
In a November, 2007, memorandum, which the Guardian has also posted online, a lawyer at the Justice Department, Kenneth Wainstein, told Michael Mukasey, the New York judge who had recently taken over as Attorney General, that the N.S.A. wanted a new set of procedures that would give the Agency considerably broader authorization.
Ohlin thinks that if Trump went to a Republican Congress and asked for a broad authorization of military force, it would be willing to give it to him.
Maduro's broad authorization from the National Assembly allows him to protect the sovereignty, security, and integrity of the country from any external or internal threat.
Advocates of greater transparency welcomed Obama's gesture, but expressed concern at the precedent he set by continuing to assert his authority for expanded counterterrorism operations under the broad authorization for the use of force that Congress passed after 9/11, years before Islamic State and other terrorist groups even existed.
