"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.
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.
That will come in the form of expanded powers for law-enforcement agencies looking to stop the next Zehaf-Bibeau before an attack.
More politically engaged clerks can find Sotomayor's ideological reticence frustrating — in Cassidy v. Chertoff (2006), for example, rather than challenging the expanding powers of the national-security state, she ruled that the operators of a ferry-boat company on Lake Champlain could search passengers at random in the name of preventing terrorism.
What Mr. Cheney really favors is expanded power for Republican administrations.
AES Corp., an Arlington, Va.-based company that has grown into the world's largest independent power producer, has struck a $500 million deal with the Ugandan government to build a massive dam near Bujagali that would greatly expand power capacity for the country, where fewer than 5percentt of the 22 million residents have electricity.
When Mr Clinton proposed universal health care in 1993, he was resented for expanding government power.
