"The President's dangerous search for expanded power appears to be endless," Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, said in March.
Charlotte police released a statement saying they had invited the independent, Washington-based Police Foundation to review the department's policies, would ask a judge to release body camera footage on any incident where someone is seriously hurt or killed by an officer as soon as prosecutors allow it and were asking for expanded power for its citizen review panel.
"Every time it looks as though the administration is going to face criticism, they emerge with a request for expanded powers or a new announcement," said Laura W. Murphy, the director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The chairman of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, meanwhile, indicated that his agency would push the Legislature for expanded powers to license workers at off-track betting companies and order OTB security audits.
In recent years, India's government has set ambitious goals for expanding power generation capacity, and while new plants have come online, many more have faced delays, whether because of bureaucratic entanglements, environmental concerns or other problems.
That will come in the form of expanded powers for law-enforcement agencies looking to stop the next Zehaf-Bibeau before an attack.
What Mr. Cheney really favors is expanded power for Republican administrations.
The late nineteenth century was, for the United States, a time of expanding power and wealth, a Gilded Age of confidence in which Victorian sentimentality and optimism prevailed even in face of the failures of Reconstruction, the war's terrible losses, and the unresolved grief of so many bereaved.
Civil libertarians, frustrated that they cannot draw the other side into a debate, argue that questions about the need for such expanded powers are critical, and far from answered.
He strove to both solidify his position within his coalition and garner enough clout to push through several much-disputed reforms on his agenda, including a widespread overhaul of the justice system and a change to the Constitution that would allow for the direct election of the president with expanded powers for the office.
Europe is already pushing various other reforms in banking and finance, which include requiring larger capital reserves for risk-taking parts of the business, as well as expanded powers for the European Central Bank to oversee every bank in the euro currency union.
