But the court is being asked to rule on a relatively narrow matter: whether Florida's highest court overreached itself when it set a new deadline for manual recounts.
Sheikh Hasina's Awami League (AL) had overreached in claiming for itself the privilege of overseeing the polls.
He is still a presence in Republican politics, pondering a run for the White House (see Lexington), but he overreached as speaker.
Banks, meanwhile, complain that the Department of Justice has overreached in indicating that hiring relatives of officials counts as bribery.
Perhaps he overreached a bit at times in setting goals to end AIDS and world hunger, but drawing Americans' attention to the globe's neediest human beings seems appropriate in this forum.
Mr Maliki is also interfering with senior appointments in the armed forces: the new divisional army commander in Mosul, for instance, is said to be a brother-in-law.He has also gained ground, even among Sunnis, by his increasingly acerbic attitude towards the Kurds, who many Arabs think have overreached themselves in the past few years.
Having sought to overthrow Mr Chávez, first in an abortive coup and then through a general strike-cum-lock-out, many of the opposition's leaders were too easily dismissed as spoiled "oligarchs".But since his re-election last year, Mr Chávez has overreached himself and provoked some more dangerous opponents.
Speaking the following day, Mr Bush claimed that the court had "overreached" itself.
Mr Scrushy's fate will add weight to the argument of some who claim that prosecutors have overreached, and that using civil rather than criminal procedures would yield more reliable results, and at far less cost to taxpayers.Mr Scrushy will now keep most of his estimated $300m fortune.
Merger muddle Trade's bounty Reprints Related items California's broken government: It never ends, ArnoldDec 2nd 2004 Private equity: Trade secretsNov 21st 2002Critics say that Mr Harrigan has overreached, and turned CalPERS whose 13-member board is heavily Democratic into a tool of leftist politics and unions, thus diluting its effectiveness.
But unions overreached in calling an election to recall (ie, sack) Mr Walker in June 2012.
