Nonetheless, the bill's language, privacy advocates said, leaves room for the FISA court, which oversees the NSA's domestic surveillance, to interpret it expansively.
Although the FDA has the statutory authority to ensure the "safety and effectiveness" of medical devices, it has expansively interpreted the term "safety" to encompass considerations of how consumers might use test results provided by purely informative devices.
Answer: Since the New Deal, the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted Congress' power expansively, applying a nearly irrefutable presumption of constitutionality to even the most flagrant affronts to the doctrine of enumerated powers, as it will again be urged to do with ObamaCare.
The broader situation throughout the Middle East appears bleaker still inasmuch as the original congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that began the war on Afghanistan has been expansively interpreted to now encompass covert "special forces operations", cyber warfare, and drone bombing in at least five other countries.
Like the penny opportunist, Mr. Swartz was invited to sample the wares of the nonprofit online collection Jstor, and he interpreted that invitation quite expansively.
Federal rules limit reimbursement for tissue to reasonable administrative and processing costs, although some interpret those rules expansively.
As a consequence, executive branch officials are free to interpret their authority expansively, content in the knowledge that they likely will not be asked to justify the full scope of their actions to the pesky electorate.
Although the Supreme Court has interpreted Congress's commerce power expansively, this type of mandate would not pass muster even under the most aggressive commerce clause cases.
Justice Thomas concurred separately, saying the majority had interpreted the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution too expansively.
When the commission issues an advisory opinion on ethics law, its critics say, it sometimes interprets the law too expansively.
