They have tried to use their parliamentary majority to curb torture, limit political prosecutions, expand press freedom and reduce the power of unelected authorities.
The case illustrates the ways the fields of hate crime and cybercrime prosecution are expanding.
It was as a supervisory assistant state's attorney from 1994 to 1997 that Mr. Morano established a state-wide gang prosecution unit and expanded the state's racketeering laws to address gang activity.
One of the court's fiercest critics, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, has expressed little confidence that Ms. Bensouda, whom he knows because of her work on the 1994 Rwanda genocide prosecutions, would expand the court's focus beyond Africa.
Also, under the governor's proposals, background checks would be required for flight-school students and the permissible uses of federal wire taps in state terrorism prosecutions would be expanded.
The bank records are considered critical to the prosecution because they expand the case against Mr. Estrada beyond allegations of kickbacks made by a provincial governor, Luis Singson.
With the Supreme Court allowing parts of President Trump's Muslim ban to go into effect, Attorney General Sessions removing oversight of local police and expanding prosecution of immigrants, the expansion of a virtual border is widening and its targets — indigenous groups, communities of color and immigrant communities — are narrowing.
As president, Mr. Sarkozy enjoys full immunity from prosecution, and under a law expanded last February the immunity includes all civil actions as well.
John Hemming, Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, who helped to persuade Lord Goldsmith to launch the review, called for it to be expanded to cover earlier prosecutions and child protection cases in the family courts where children were taken into care.
After failing to produce any major prosecutions stemming from the housing crisis, an expanded federal task force is planning a new tack, cracking down on financial firms suspected of improperly bundling home loans into securities for investors, officials said Wednesday.
