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When a by-the-book US diplomat thinks you may have overstepped, you probably overstepped.
Eventually McCarthy overstepped, launching a controversial investigation of the army.
The union felt that the commission had overstepped its mandate.
Her offense is merely that she overstepped the show's guidelines.
Other legislative leaders told her she had overstepped her authority.
"  Kozora responded, "I apologize if I have overstepped my boundaries.
Mr. Kuczynski's enemies denied that Congress had overstepped its powers.
Of a special prosecutor whose investigation overstepped its original bounds.
But Republican critics charged that the FCC had overstepped its authority.
Meanwhile, Republicans insisted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overstepped its authority.
The judge decided that the Obama administration had overstepped its authority.
Some of the world's greatest business people have overstepped the mark.
Still, Anna knowingly and wantonly overstepped the bounds of lawful behavior.
The official said McMaster then realized "he overstepped" and backed off.
It is unclear if the Treasury Department has overstepped its authority.
These writers argued that the report shows that liberals have overstepped.
Uber and Postmates filed a lawsuit saying lawmakers overstepped their authority.
They argue that former director Richard Cordray overstepped his regulatory authority.
Any suggestion our onsite physical security team has overstepped is absolutely false.
This is not the first time DHS has seemingly overstepped its boundaries.
EU regulators agreed that the company had overstepped, fining Google €2.4 billion.
More fundamentally, Mr Lighthizer fumes that this body has overstepped its remit.
As charities have focused on results, they have sometimes overstepped the mark.
Judges previously determined the CFPB overstepped its bounds in assessing that fine.
Morales denies any wrongdoing and says the CICIG has overstepped its remit.
Sandoval believes Obama overstepped his authority with his executive action on immigration.
I immediately closed my computer, feeling I had somehow overstepped my inquiry.
As a non-Jamaican myself, I apologise if I've overstepped the mark.
Critics contended that the N.C.A.A. had overstepped its bounds with those penalties.
I breached the trust and overstepped the boundaries between student and teacher.
Trump said DACA had to be ended because Obama overstepped his authority.
Beyoncé may have overstepped on one occasion, but she knew the score.
I overstepped a bit and tried to take control of the situation.
Ireland, which is also contesting the ruling, says the regulators overstepped their authority.
The players' union sued on Brady's behalf, claiming Goodell had overstepped his authority.
Since then, Republicans have repeatedly insisted that the move overstepped Obama's presidential authority.
What can you do if you feel the security has overstepped the mark?
His decision can be overstepped, but is usually observed by the nation's courts.
"The United States has overstepped its national borders in every way," he said.
The courts also can take action if they determine an agency has overstepped.
Privacy advocates have argued that the practice skirted or overstepped the Fourth Amendment.
One state … the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way.
But plenty of others think that the appellate body had overstepped its remit.
Several states immediately challenged the rule, alleging the environmental agency had overstepped its authority.
The investors' lawsuit held that the government overstepped its authority by seizing all profits.
After Kate leaves, Toby realizes he's overstepped and goes to her house to apologize.
The sources said the trading houses believed the State Department had overstepped its authority.
On monetary policy, Weber said central banks may have overstepped boundaries with quantitative easing.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has argued the agency overstepped when it imposed the restrictions.
Citing that case, Friedman ruled that Congress had "overstepped its bounds" by regulating FGM.
He believes that the Obama administration's plan overstepped the bounds of its legal authority.
That decision said the Department of Labor, which oversees retirement accounts, overstepped its authority.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened legal action Friday, arguing Obama overstepped his bounds.
I&aposm going to agree with you that he overstepped his bounds, he was inappropriate.
The main legal question in the case was whether the commission had overstepped its authority.
He did not object to the feudal rules as such, just to them being overstepped.
Hence, Manafort argues that Mueller has overstepped his legal authority in investigating and charging Manafort.
" It added that the Commission had overstepped the mark by "interfering with national tax sovereignty.
She's overstepped her boundaries, and clearly they have been stretching, but this time something snapped.
In an emergency application filed late Wednesday, lawmakers claimed the Pennsylvania court overstepped its authority.
The state Supreme Court said McAuliffe had overstepped his clemency powers through his sweeping order.
Attorney General Pruitt has filed lawsuits against the EPA when the agency overstepped its authority.
With her latest phone call, Wendy overstepped her bounds and was put in her place.
Opponents also say the Labor Department overstepped its legal authority and overruled a peer agency.
Lam had overstepped her authority under the city's mini-constitution, known as the Basic Law.
Trump said DACA had to be ended because Obama overstepped his authority in enacting it.
After a recess, Sullivan seemed to say he'd overstepped in suggesting Flynn's behavior was treasonous.
Republicans argue that the bureau has too much unchecked power and has overstepped its authority.
When the EPA overstepped its authority and threatened his state, he rightfully sued the agency.
Plaintiffs said that Whitaker, who oversees ATF, rushed through the new rules and overstepped his authority.
The EPA now argues that Mr Obama overstepped his authority in promulgating the Clean Power Plan.
On Sunday, she told Bay News 9 that the teacher and the school overstepped their authority.
"[Manson] overstepped the mark into extremity in so many different realms of behavior," Andreae told Refinery29.
But that doesn't always mean that police officers who've overstepped their authority are brought to justice.
The site said that it potentially overstepped, however, by applying that standard to a political ad.
Earlier on Friday Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said the top court had overstepped its limit.
The Department of Justice slammed the decision in a statement, claiming the court overstepped its authority.
"The overwhelming sentiment was that we overstepped our bounds" with the non-negotiable fee, he says.
"We need to get back to the way things were before the NLRB overstepped," Walberg said.
Clinton has benefited in her career when male opponents have overstepped or appeared to bully her.
Those who refused, or later overstepped, were banned from the platform or even faced criminal prosecution.
And in February, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested that the probe had overstepped.
Manafort's team had argued that Mueller's investigation had overstepped its intention and should be shut down.
Many red-leaning states sued to block the rule, arguing that the EPA overstepped its bounds.
In the Fifth Circuit, the judges determined that the Department of Labor (DOL) overstepped their bounds.
However, 260 states sued to block the rule, arguing that the EPA overstepped its legal bounds.
Rand Paul believe the federal government has overstepped its bounds in regulating the private health insurance market.
We overstepped our bounds and injected ourselves into that relationship, against our core belief as a business.
Republicans said Cordray overstepped the law and note that the courts did not always back his interpretation.
Olivia from This Is Us overstepped this boundary with Kate, and I still hate her for it.
Still, Sineenat "overstepped her authority," acting without the King's approval and against royal tradition, the notice said.
"The Constitutional Court has overstepped the limit set out in the constitution and the laws," he said.
As of last summer, Haley told CNN Trump had "never once" called to say she had overstepped.
Progressive and immigrant-rights groups are suing to block the declaration, saying it overstepped the president's authority.
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has argued that Mueller has overstepped his authority.
The White House justified the decision by saying the request overstepped separation of powers under the Constitution.
Yet in at least two instances, the vice president, Mr. Ayers and other aides have badly overstepped.
To be clear, it is not the Congress that has overstepped its bounds, it is President Bukele.
"This bill cuts areas of the EPA's regulatory budget where the EPA has overstepped its boundaries," Sen.
Some Democrats have called for the abolishment of the agency, arguing that it has overstepped its authority.
Together, it amounts to a campaign to convince Americans that the deep state has overstepped its bounds.
Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, said in mid-April that Treasury appeared to have overstepped its authority.
Because the moment you're telling a couple what they "should" do at their wedding, you have gravely overstepped.
And in February, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested that the Science Committee probe had overstepped.
The court agreed with PHH's claim that the bureau had overstepped its bounds, and threw out the fine.
A group of states sued to block those programs, however, arguing that the president had overstepped his authority.
But Obama's critics say he has overstepped his authority and put dangerous criminals back into their communities. Sen.
A number of parties claim that the SEC and other regulators have overstepped their bounds in prosecuting traders.
He has made his changes using his executive powers, enraging Republicans who say he has overstepped his authority.
Mulvaney and his fellow Republicans have long criticized the agency, saying it drastically overstepped its mandate under Cordray.
It's not clear whether Trump has spoken directly to her since the White House said Haley had overstepped.
This argument is often tied to the idea that President Obama has overstepped the limits of his authority.
Pai, who as a commissioner also argued the agency overstepped, said the FCC wouldn't defend them in court.
But in February, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested that the Science Committee probe had overstepped.
Kevin Jon Heller, a law professor at the University of London, said he believed Mr. Trump had overstepped.
The coup leaders overstepped, dissolving the Constitution and legislature, sparking counterprotests that quickly returned Mr. Chávez to power.
Many Republicans have long argued that the bureau has overstepped its authority and created burdensome standards for businesses.
Republicans have said the Obama administration overstepped its authority in 22019 when it proposed to block the mine.
Gianforte initially denied the allegation and he blamed Jacobs for "aggressive" questioning that he said overstepped personal boundaries.
The judges and prosecutors pursuing the Lava Jato investigations have on occasion acted too hastily and overstepped their powers.
The government says the Constitutional Court, Turkey's highest, overstepped its limit and was acting like a "super appeals court".
The formal notification to Congress prompted bipartisan outcry and accusations that the administration had again overstepped its constitutional authority.
By failing to adequately assess broadband service providers' role as telecommunications providers under the FCC charter, the FCC overstepped.
Russia says it overstepped a U.N. mandate that was only to impose a no-fly zone and protect civilians.
We must hold the IRS and its unelected bureaucrats accountable — especially since they have overstepped their Constitutional bounds before.
She overstepped her bounds and ate the forbidden fruit—all for knowledge—all for a good Ivy League education.
Whether most reasonable people agree with Barr's decision, or believe he overstepped, will be a critical question to watch.
Things went wrong from the start as the team overstepped their orders and quickly employed violence, the official said.
The United States complained on Monday that Ban overstepped his mandate by referring to Iran's complaints in the report.
Although stopping short of a direct apology to those he edited, Huffman did say he had overstepped his bounds.
The Supreme Court struck down the act after a challenge claimed Congress had overstepped states' authority in enacting it.
That brought calls for impeachment from some Democrats and also raised questions of whether Trump overstepped any legal bounds.
There seems to be a common consensus in the baseball world that the Red Sox overstepped by using technology.
Even Brown, the Democratic former governor, says he's been impressed with Bevin's energy, even when he has occasionally overstepped.
The administration said it ended DACA because Obama overstepped his constitutional authority by creating the policy without congressional approval.
Naturally, the rule was challenged by power companies and upwind states who felt the EPA had overstepped its authority.
Republican lawmakers argued that the court overstepped its authority in ordering the Legislature to face up to this responsibility.
They argued that Cordray's CFPB routinely overstepped legal and jurisdictional boundaries and prized flashy, expensive fines over consumer freedom.
But Mnuchin may have overstepped the law of numbers when he said the wealthy will get no tax break.
The rulings come amid concerns by GOP that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overstepped its authority when issuing the map.
Twelve Republicans joined Democrats in the Senate to pass the measure, concerned that the president had overstepped his authority.
Mr. Grey (whose given name is Denola Adepetun) had apparently overstepped, dressing in a way that was supposedly feminine.
Herbert, who was gracious after Thursday's match, said that Lahyani was an "amazing" umpire who had overstepped his responsibilities.
But he said the police had also overstepped their bounds by investigating antiwar groups like Women Strike for Peace.
It also argues McAuliffe overstepped his authority but is using a more formal process by moving through lower courts.
He has been fighting the indictment in court, arguing that federal prosecutors overstepped their bounds when they charged him.
Mr. Zuma's lawyers argued that the commission had overstepped its mandate in posing detailed questions to the former president.
That has dismayed some conservatives who believed that President Barack Obama had overstepped his authority in creating the program.
But the court said the FCC overstepped its authority in banning states from enforcing their own net neutrality regulations.
Jarvik had also overstepped his responsibilities by trying to give directions to the Veterinary and Food Board, it said.
The administration said it ended DACA because Obama overstepped his constitutional authority by creating the policy without Congressional approval.
One conservative argument against DACA is that President Obama's White House overstepped in its authority in creating the program.
According to the complaint, Ricketts overstepped his authority when he "proposed, initiated, funded, organized, operated, and controlled" the petition drive.
A judge subsequently ruled not that Brady was innocent but that the N.F.L. had overstepped its authority in suspending him.
Today, the court ruled that the FCC had overstepped when it attempted to regulate the price of calls within states.
FOR THE third straight year, the Supreme Court will ask whether Barack Obama overstepped his executive authority under the constitution.
Maybe we both overstepped the mark slightly, but it feels harsh to be thrown off the race, both of us.
Dietz noted that the NSA, not the CIA, traditionally handles signals intelligence — meaning the CIA might have overstepped its jurisdiction.
The 50 states do have an "escape hatch" in instances like these, where the feds have clearly overstepped their authority.
Republicans say the court overstepped its bounds, and they filed a series of failed lawsuits meant to block the changes.
Ruddy is among those who argue Coats both overstepped and undermined the president's policies with his congressional testimony last month.
McGruder overstepped the theme of "we are all responsible" by including the 14-year-old victim in his courtroom scene.
Mr. Cagney often overstepped personal and business boundaries, according to interviews with more than 30 people familiar with the company.
But he added that the Stone sentencing recommendation was extreme and that the Justice Department had not overstepped its bounds.
Morales justified his bid to expel Velasquez on the grounds he had overstepped his authority and politicized the justice system.
According to interviews with more than 30 people familiar with the company, Mr. Cagney often overstepped personal and business boundaries.
But the person who wrote it thinks the person overstepped onto his territory, or was sending a passive-aggressive message.
Mr. Garfein, as he himself admitted, could be difficult to work with, but he also knew when he had overstepped.
Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, who shares Mr. Kaczynski's nationalist leanings, said that Brussels had overstepped its bounds.
Republicans, meanwhile, have questioned whether the FBI overstepped its boundaries by monitoring campaign officials it suspected of being Russian agents.
Republicans immediately said they would seek a stay from the US Supreme Court, arguing that the state Supreme Court overstepped.
The executive order directed the agency to find rules that were too costly or complex or that overstepped Treasury's authority.
Trump's EPA argues that the agency overstepped, arguing it can only regulate pollution from individual plants and not sector-wide.
That's because, perhaps without realizing it, Aquilina overstepped her bounds as a judge and adopted the role of victim advocate.
So the Congress, in your view, hasn't overstepped its authority by handcuffing the president's ability to impose or lift sanctions?
The foundation said Kemp's "proselytizing actions overstepped judicial authority" and has asked the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct to investigate.
And by making this change to Battlefront II at such short notice, it seems the company knows it overstepped the mark.
Pai, a conservative Republican from Kansas with an extreme affinity for deregulation, argued that the Obama-era rules overstepped FCC authority.
State prosecutors challenged the ruling, arguing that the court had overstepped its authority by rejecting an exception allowed by the legislature.
Manafort had claimed special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment order was too broad, and thus his investigation had overstepped its legal authority.
They insist that they have only gone to court because the commissioner overstepped his authority in applying the personal conduct policy.
Rosenstein's letter argued that Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation last year was unprofessional and overstepped the boundaries of his job.
Critics have also challenged the rules on multiple fronts -- from procedural issues to charges that the FCC simply overstepped its authority.
Pruitt wants to get rid of Barack Obama's so-called Clean Power Plan on the grounds it overstepped the EPA's authority.
Critics of the order say it overstepped presidential powers and the judge's ruling was a victory for the rule of law.
In both cases, Republicans argued that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overstepped its authority when issuing a new congressional map last month.
On Thursday, the board said the Democratic majority in Browning-Ferris overstepped its authority by altering the legal definitions of employment.
Andrew M. Cuomo to subsidize several struggling upstate nuclear plants, arguing that the state overstepped federal authority to regulate energy prices.
Republicans have also argued that the justices had overstepped their authority and infringed on the Legislature's power to make spending decisions.
A Republican coalition of states, led by Texas, sued the administration, saying the administration overstepped its authority, and Judge O'Connor agreed.
The administration argued that President Barack Obama had overstepped his authority and circumvented Congress when he created the program in 2012.
While Democrats praised Cordray for his tough oversight of lenders, Republicans and the financial sector argued the CFPB overstepped its boundaries.
Critics of the FCC contend the agency overstepped its bounds and applied 20th Century rules to innovative and rapidly changing technologies.
Others have suggested that Mr. Bercow's outspoken intervention overstepped the tradition of political neutrality associated with the role of the speaker.
If the Prosecutor General decides Haavisto overstepped his powers, the minister may have to resign, potentially destabilizing the five-party coalition.
While the president contends these measures are designed to keep Americans safe, many critics say the president has overstepped his authority.
Two judges in Miami also ruled the state had overstepped its power by revamping the law and found the change unconstitutional.
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Fox News the operatives overstepped their bounds by killing Khashoggi and then covered up the murder.
Eventually, de Lesseps admitted that she "loved" Frankel and that if her previous behavior had overstepped any personal boundaries, she was sorry.
Two dozen states and industry groups have sued the EPA, arguing that the agency overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act.
Jason Van Dyke overstepped in that mandate and so he will have those things stripped from him, but he is collateral damage.
Democrats said Trump overstepped when he pressured Ukraine to investigate political rivals, and obstructed Congress when he worked to hinder subsequent probes.
It will eventually be challenged in court by foes — local regulators, tech giants and activists — who believe the FCC overstepped its bounds.
While some welcomed the fine, others in the tech community felt the EU had overstepped—particularly with the amount of the fine.
Deripaska himself remains blacklisted and is suing the United States, alleging it had overstepped its legal powers in imposing sanctions on him.
It's important for your own self-respect and contentment at work to let others know if and when they've overstepped the limits.
If ICE overstepped its authority by not using a warrant to access Collins's farm, de Leon-Aguilar's criminal charges could be dismissed.
As a House GOP lawmaker from 2011 to 2017, Mulvaney often said the CFPB had abused its power and overstepped the law.
Trump argued that former President Obama overstepped his authority with the program, and that the issue should be dealt with by Congress.
The federal government overstepped its authority by issuing a rule to regulate hydraulic fracturing, according to several states and the gas industry.
Trump has already faced fierce opposition from lawmakers and political groups who say the president overstepped his authority with the emergency declaration.
Both suits argued that Mr. Trump had overstepped his constitutional authority by using money to fund a border barrier without congressional approval.
Two security researchers were also prosecuted last year amid claims they overstepped the limits of their penetration test at an Iowa courthouse.
Indeed, a lawsuit claiming that the bank's quantitative-easing scheme overstepped its legal mandate is making its way through Germany's constitutional court.
Pai and other Republicans believe the Obama-era FCC overstepped its authority with the regulations by reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers.
FERC's authority extends only over wholesale electricity markets and cannot affect retail rates, and utilities argued that FERC overstepped on both counts.
Beverly Parton, 71, a retired teacher, voted for Mr. Trump but said she thought he had overstepped in his dealings with Ukraine.
Now the Hunter Biden-Ukraine issue is on everyone's radar AND we know that Democrats overstepped with their 'quid pro quo' accusation.
The title of Meghan Daum's new book—The Problem With Everything—conveys just how far she believes the woke left has overstepped.
The hospital groups contend that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services overstepped its authority in compelling hospitals to publicize these rates.
Since his time as a minority commissioner under the Obama administration, Pai has argued the FCC overstepped when it imposed the restrictions.
However, a federal court said on Monday that the FCC may have overstepped its bounds and has put the price caps on hold.
On April 25th Judge Orrick ruled that the president had overstepped his powers by tying federal funds to the enforcement of immigration law.
They told Knipel in court on Thursday the city had overstepped its authority and that quarantining the infected would be a preferable approach.
Even in Catholic media, limits can be overstepped ... and all ethical standards and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned.
Mr. Manafort, who has pleaded not guilty, is arguing that the special counsel overstepped his authority by delving into his payments from Ukraine.
They were originally spoken in the demo—it was a Leonard Cohen tribute song in my mind but I think we overstepped ourselves!
Cardi didn't take it quietly, and fired back with a countersuit for $15 mil ... and claimed Shaft overstepped the bounds of a manager.
Young Thug's off the hook for a felony drug charge, thanks to his lawyers arguing cops overstepped boundaries with an illegal search warrant.
U.S. President Donald Trump is barring appointments to the WTO's Appellate Body, saying its judges have overstepped their mandate and ignored their instructions.
Anyway, legally speaking, there's no evidence for the view that Obama's EPA overstepped its authority in regulating carbon with the Clean Power Plan.
But by interjecting issues of policy and directing the Justice Department not to defend any aspect of the order, she overstepped her bounds.
Pai and other Republicans have argued the Obama-era FCC overstepped its authority with the regulations by reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers.
Republicans decried the effort as "backdoor amnesty" and argued that Obama overstepped his authority by protecting undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
The Justice Department's inspector general released an exhaustive report detailing a series of ways Comey overstepped his authority on the Clinton email probe.
In a filing in the U.S. District Court in Houston, the Chamber joined the suit, arguing Obama overstepped his bounds in rejecting Keystone.
In the case, the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds by empowering the attorney general to unilaterally make law.
Nevertheless, multiple Trump allies have agreed with the President's thinking that Mueller has overstepped his mandate and that someone should be held accountable.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said giving the OPCW additional powers overstepped the boundaries of its founding treaty, the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
Lisa O'Donnell, the organization's executive director, told Insider that the commission overstepped and essentially prioritized personal political opinions over the expertise of librarians.
The president immediately tried to quash that subpoena in April, taking House Democrats to court and arguing the committee had overstepped its powers.
Still, intrepid visitors have sometimes overstepped the boundaries, forcing Ms. Viladomiu to add a barrier outside her apartment, to keep tourists at bay.
Lilly, which is one of three manufacturers of insulin under scrutiny for rising list prices — said the federal government had overstepped its authority.
But the court also said the Federal Communications Commission had overstepped by broadly stopping state and local governments from writing their own rules.
As a result, it is unclear whether he would testify that he believes Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in his dealings with Ukraine.
The court also vacated a lower judge's ruling that the Bureau of Land Management had overstepped its bounds by trying to regulate fracking.
U.S. President Donald Trump is blocking appointments to the WTO's Appellate Body, saying its judges have overstepped their mandate and ignored their instructions.
He strongly felt Blanks had overstepped his artistic boundaries and felt that he was a character rather than the focus of the film.
So for Comey to act the way he did — especially at the time that he did — made it seem like he overstepped his mandate.
Earlier this week, a Brooklyn judge ruled that the government had overstepped its authority by seeking similar assistance from Apple in a drug case.
And the Irish government hit out strongly at the Commission, saying it overstepped its authority by ordering Ireland to collect the tax from Apple.
But in answering the Hamburg court's query, it offered guidance to assess whether Michael Klotz's canny branding overstepped EU law on protected regional labels.
They speculate that lower-level officials overstepped the mark, or even that Communist Party factions hostile to Mr Xi are trying to embarrass him.
Or did they instead ride roughshod over the rights of an American as they overstepped their license to listen in on a foreign agent?
However, the GOP members insist the Fed has overstepped its bounds elsewhere thanks to the "virtually unlimited regulatory authority" over the nation's banking system.
The FCC chairman opposes the rules, arguing that the agency overstepped its authority in the way it reclassified internet service providers as common carriers.
Many who have sued Gawker said that it overstepped the boundaries of privacy, slandered reputations or failed to do adequate reporting before posting articles.
There is a good chance the courts will find these regulations overstepped federal law, both in the administrative process and in allowing sex discrimination.
Morrissey and Paxton led 26 states in suing over the rule, saying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its bounds in issuing the regulation.
Manafort has alleged in court that Mueller's office overstepped its authority by charging him with crimes related to his work before the 2016 campaign.
On Thursday, the government filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing that the ruling overstepped by giving a victims' truth commission such power.
The police statement acknowledges that the encounter should have been short and that the responding officer overstepped in asking for Myers to identify himself.
But the court also said that the commission had overstepped by broadly blocking state and local governments from creating their own net neutrality rules.
A three-judge panel is weighing whether the FCC overstepped its powers when it reclassified Internet service to give it authority on the issue.
In blocking the rule, Judge Amos Mazzant III agreed with a coalition of states and businesses that the Labor Department had overstepped its authority.
Because of their blind hatred for all things "Clinton," the argument went, Republicans had grossly overstepped their mandate and their responsibility to the country.
Sharif's allies say the court has overstepped its remit and point out that no charge of corruption or abuse of authority has been proved.
Judges must determine if Johnson overstepped his authority by suspending Parliament for a five-week period during the run-up to the Brexit deadline.
It ruled that he overstepped by trying to force family businesses like Hobby Lobby to pay for insurance coverage of contraceptives despite their religious beliefs.
"The Social Security Administration not only overstepped its mission with this regulation, it discriminated against certain Americans with disabilities who receive Social Security benefits," Rep.
So Pinetops and Wilson officials brought to case to the FCC, which pre-empted the act in 2015, ruling that the state law had overstepped.
The SAFE program was suspended in June 000, after an appeals court found that Towne had overstepped his authority by creating his own police force.
"Turkey has indeed strayed away from the European Union in recent months and worryingly overstepped the mark in ways that cannot be ignored," he said.
The first was simply that the FCC was not clearly granted the authority to make the rule, and thus overstepped by implementing it, Kavanaugh argued.
The Trump administration has said it is ending DACA because Obama overstepped his constitutional authority when he bypassed Congress and created the DACA program unilaterally.
The institution proposed stricter rules governing banks' provisions for non-performing loans but overstepped its authority, the EU parliament's legal service says, according to Reuters.
In that case, a federal appeals court determined the agency had overstepped its authority by creating the rule, parts of which took effect last year.
The 4-3 ruling came a month after Republicans in the state sued McAuliffe, saying that he overstepped his authority in issuing the executive action.
The defense specifically wants to know more about how the FBI instructed its confidential informant to determine if investigators and prosecutors overstepped during the investigation.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Maryland overstepped its authority when it implemented a program to subsidize construction of natural-gas-fired power plants.
Well, SAS overstepped the line when he used former Lakers forward Lamar Odom's addiction issues as an anecdote to take a jab at Phil Jackson.
The action was challenged by 26 states, led by Texas, who asserted that the action overstepped the bounds of executive power and violated the Constitution.
"The road to the Helsinki disaster was paved by Republican inaction every time Trump overstepped," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University who endorsed Trump before the Iowa caucuses, said the pope had overstepped his religious duty.
But an appeals court threw out the judgment, saying that Congress had overstepped its authority in enacting a law that allowed the families to sue.
Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico's governor and a critic of the board, told lawmakers that it had not achieved its objectives and had overstepped its bounds.
Hudbay in August said it would appeal that ruling but it first asked the court to reconsider the decision on grounds it overstepped its authority.
Hudbay in August said it would appeal that ruling but it first asked the court to reconsider the decision on grounds it overstepped its authority.
Lawmakers said Vizcarra had overstepped constitutional limits by overriding Congress' authority to appoint TC justices, and vowed to challenge him in local and international court.
According to WVIR, a lawsuit claims elected officials have overstepped their authority by leaving the tarps and have no legal right to remove the statues.
It's a fair criticism that the Obama administration might have overstepped its boundaries by trying to impose its expansive interpretation of Title IX upon schools nationwide.
But Mr. Macron, who loves to talk and spin off ideas no matter the follow-through, has overstepped himself lately, European officials, diplomats and analysts say.
Among other things, Whitaker wrote in a CNN op-ed article last year that Mueller had overstepped his mandate by digging into the Trump Organization's finances.
" Coinhive thinks that anti-virus companies may have overstepped when "they report some Javascript code that is securely executed in the Browser's sandbox as a 'Trojan.
Democrats argued the Republican president had overstepped his authority by going around Congress, because the legislature has the power to control spending under the U.S. Constitution.
And the Senate has exercised its constitutional prerogative to decline consideration of the Supreme Court nominee of a President who has willfully overstepped his constitutional limits.
A federal appeals court has ruled against the FCC's proposed caps on intrastate rates on inmate phone calls, arguing that the federal agency overstepped its bounds.
In the suit, ABC argues that the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council and the Labor Department overstepped their executive authority in issuing the rule and subsequent guidance.
Normally, it is defense lawyers, not prosecutors, who tell judges that the police have overstepped their authority by subjecting their clients to illegal searches or seizures.
They argue in the case that Obama overstepped his constitutional powers by making the cost sharing reduction payments even though Congress did not appropriate the money.
Several groups sued the EPA earlier this month when it was contemplating a long-term delay in its methane regulation, saying the agency overstepped its bounds.
Last week, a federal judge said Trump had overstepped when he put a blanket travel ban on refugees and most travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The police chief appeared to acknowledge Tuesday that his department overstepped by barging into Carmody's home and office and detaining him for more than six hours.
Earlier this week, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that the government had overstepped its authority by seeking similar assistance from Apple in a drug case.
Pai, cable companies and other critics of the Obama-era net neutrality rules say the FCC overstepped its bounds and that the onerous regulations stifle investment.
They called for his impeachment, saying he had overstepped his constitutional bounds with delusions of grandeur, blocked the will of the people and destroyed Italian democracy.
Since resigning from Congress three years ago, Schock has been fighting the indictment in court, arguing that federal prosecutors overstepped their bounds when they charged him.
That includes the World Bank, which some Trump administration officials believe has overstepped its mandate and failed to keep up with current geopolitical and economic trends.
Ricketts overstepped his authority by using his position and public funds to raise money and support for the referendum in violation of the separation of powers.
House Bill 780, or the "Uphold Historical Marriage Act," asserts that the U.S. Supreme Court "overstepped its constitutional bounds" in its historic 2015 ruling in Obergefell v.
Republicans said the agency, which is responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector, has overstepped its authority and hope Kraninger will continue to rein it in.
A memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein claims he was terminated because he overstepped his authority, treated Hillary Clinton unfairly, and made the FBI look bad.
A federal judge in the Alexandria, Virginia court is weighing whether to dismiss the charges against Manafort, whose lawyers question whether Mueller had overstepped his prosecutorial powers.
But these policies have repeatedly overstepped American bounds, most recently with an administration policy that separated more than 2,000 migrant children from their families at the border.
Now, in reportedly trying to deport a woman while her lawyers appealed her immigration case in court, a federal judge made clear that Sessions had overstepped again.
"Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit [female genital mutilation]," Friedman wrote, adding he believes the issue falls under the purview of state law, not Congress.
However, the issue before the Supreme Court is whether President Obama overstepped his authority by trying to legalize a broad class of individuals by fiat, bypassing Congress.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) said Trump's new order, which he signed Monday morning, is an explicit acknowledgement that the administration overstepped with its January ban.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said in 2-1 decision that the FCC overstepped its authority by trying to set limits on intrastate phone call rates.
Like Weezer did on Pinkerton, Modest Mouse made an album that overstepped the bounds of classification and inadvertently encapsulated a movement it wasn't necessarily a part of.
But both ProPublica and lawmakers pointed to the Fair Housing Act, meant to curb discrimination in housing, as one place where Facebook may have overstepped the law.
You do not have to believe Mr Sharif to be a model of probity to think that the court overstepped its bounds in its pursuit of him.
I know, conservatives like to complain that Mr. Obama has overstepped his authority by, say, using administrative discretion to delay some provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
But the move is already igniting promises of a fierce constitutional battle in the courts with lawmakers and outside groups who say the president overstepped his authority.
Then, as if fearful that they'd overstepped some boundary, they peered down the length of the seminar table at me, as if to see how I'd react.
That year he overstepped the boundaries of his role, negotiating with Jim Valvano, the former North Carolina State coach, to replace Bill Fitch as the Nets' coach.
She says the first judge overstepped his boundaries in using a surrogacy contract to make her the mom ... even though she's not biologically related to the child.
News of the deal had members of the Tuesday Group decrying MacArthur, claiming he "overstepped his bounds" and calling for him to step down as co-chair.
In September, shortly after Mr. Frotman's resignation, Mr. Mulvaney told CNBC that the former official had overstepped his position's statutory limits during his time at the bureau.
In his dissent, Smith found that the 2011 redrawing was properly based on political, not racial, considerations, and he said the Obama administration had overstepped its bounds.
Legislative Republicans said Cooper had overstepped his authority in calling the special session, because the three-judge panel had not ordered the legislature to redraw district lines.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said in 22019-1 decision that the FCC overstepped its authority by trying to set limits on intrastate phone call rates.
Many legislators say the courts have overstepped their role by ruling that cuts in school funding violate the state Constitution's guarantee of a basic level of education.
The Times notes that this could be an acknowledgment by Chinese officials that the diplomats overstepped their limits by attempting to gain access to the sensitive base.
"The Spanish government has overstepped the red line that separated it from authoritarian and repressive regimes," said Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan leader, after the arrests on Wednesday.
Kelly says he thinks both Twitter and the school overstepped; Twitter when it handed over access to the account and SUNY Geneseo when they deleted the tweets.
But lawmakers, who voted to renew their confidence in his government on Monday, said he had overstepped constitutional limits by overriding Congress' powers to appoint tribunal judges.
A federal judge ruled this month that the administration overstepped its authority by making the payments without an appropriation from Congress, though the ruling will be appealed.
"He has overstepped the ethics limits that have bound all other presidents for decades," said Norman L. Eisen, a chief White House ethics adviser under Mr. Obama.
But beyond the yes-or-no of whether Louisville violated regulations is the far more interesting matter of whether it overstepped the cultural norms of college football.
The agency will seek public comments on its decision to end the rule, arguing the Obama administration overstepped its legal authority when it issued the 2015 regulation.
Mr. Trump has criticized the program, known as DACA, as an "amnesty-first approach," and said that President Barack Obama had overstepped his authority by introducing it.
The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the lawsuit in 2018, ruling that Congress overstepped its authority when it passed that law.
Manafort's team responded, saying that they were changing their complaint after the Mueller filing and are now arguing that Rosenstein overstepped his authority by approving Mueller's mandate.
It argues that Trump overstepped his authority when he issued the declaration to gain access to additional funds for his border wall, despite receiving $1.375 billion from Congress.
In the document filed by Huawei — which starts with a quote from James Madison — Huawei says Congress overstepped the law when it passed legislation that imposed the ban.
His about-face on the pension reform shows that unlike Nicolás Maduro, Chávez's successor in Venezuela, he is willing to beat a tactical retreat when he has overstepped.
Created by the Obama administration in the wake of the 2007-09 financial crisis, the CFPB has enraged many Republicans who believe it has overstepped its enforcement authority.
Socialist Party officials have for months questioned Ortega's actions and have begun judicial proceedings to remove her from office on the grounds that she has overstepped her authority.
" And to a veteran state judge who ruled he had overstepped his bounds in abolishing the entire board of trustees at the University of Louisville: "Oh my goodness.
"Turkey has indeed strayed away from the European Union in recent months and worryingly overstepped the mark in ways that cannot be ignored," Macron told Greece's Kathimerini newspaper.
But he also made clear that campaigning in Germany came with certain conditions, including respect for the "ground rules", and said comparisons with Nazi Germany overstepped the mark.
Information Minister Hasanul Hoque Inu said police had acted with restraint and that both the United States and the United Nations had overstepped the line with their criticism.
"The judgment in our favour shows that the police clearly overstepped the mark when they imposed a blanket ban on any XR (Extinction Rebellion) related protest," she said.
The legal battle mainly centers around whether the FCC overstepped its authority in reclassifying internet service providers and in preempting states from substituting their own net neutrality rules.
A divided three-judge panel of the D.C. federal appeals court ruled against EPA in August and in support of two companies arguing the agency overstepped its authority.
Gualtieri said the ECB's latest document was an improvement compared to a previous version, which drew criticism that the euro zone's single banking regulator had overstepped its mandate.
Which means that Obama may wind up facing criticism not just from those who think he's overstepped, but those who could conclude he has not gone far enough.
It argues that Trump overstepped his authority when he issued the declaration to gain access to additional funds for his border wall, despite receiving $1.375 billion from Congress.
The teachers unions, which want to stop the charter school movement any way they can, have filed a lawsuit claiming that the SUNY board has overstepped its authority.
Both lower courts cited prior court rulings against presidents, from James Buchanan to Bill Clinton, who had argued unsuccessfully that congressional efforts to seize records overstepped Congress's power.
They argued on Friday that the court had overstepped its remit, saying that no charge of corruption or abuse of authority has been proved in a criminal trial.
For the last few months, the company has been reeling from allegations of a machismo-fueled workplace where managers routinely overstepped verbally, physically and sometimes sexually with employees.
A case brought by House Republicans arguing President Obama overstepped his authority in making certain payments under the health law is working its way through the lower courts.
They warned that the Fed, in stimulating the housing sector, had overstepped its remit and that it was inflating dangerous asset bubbles that could cause the next crisis.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman questioned Manafort's attorney on the legal reasoning behind the former Trump aide's argument that Mueller's investigation has overstepped and should be shut down.
I don't think that they ever thought she would do that, and that really shifted the energy of the show, because [viewers] felt like she overstepped her mark.
Mirroring Donald Trump's presidency, Pruitt's term as EPA administrator has largely been defined by a belief that, under Obama, the agency massively overstepped its bounds when creating environmental regulation.
The newspaper had said the complaint was about whether the ECB had overstepped its mandate by extensively buying government bonds and with its plan to start buying corporate bonds.
Apple said, among other things, that the commission had overstepped its mark, did not understand Irish law, and denied it had received preferential tax treatment from the Irish government.
In a statement issued when he signed the sanctions bill, the president complained that lawmakers had overstepped their constitutional bounds and impeded his ability to negotiate with foreign countries.
Last week, another federal judge nixed a regulation that would have required drug makers to include their list prices in TV ads, saying the agency had overstepped its authority.
As you might remember, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide in 2015, but North Carolina Republicans think the court "overstepped its constitutional bounds," as the proposed bill says.
When Clinton was secretary of State, they made the necessary changes, including the limitation of foreign donors — but knew the White House could intervene if they overstepped their boundaries.
French media have documented several cases in which French security forces appear to have overstepped their bounds, conducting violent raids and carrying out house arrests on legally tenuous grounds.
Subsequent tweets from the president attacked Comey's character, referring to the former FBI chief as a "crooked cop" who Trump argued had overstepped his authority at the Justice Department.
"If past history is an indicator of what will happen in the future, [Trump] will restrain himself for a day because he feels he overstepped the line," said Rep.
The groups argued that Trump overstepped his constitutional power and that the order "directs federal agencies to engage in unlawful actions that will harm countless Americans, including plaintiffs' members."
An accused bank robber&aposs lawyer and privacy advocates say police overstepped when they requested the use of personal geographical data to track him down and make their arrest.
The wilderness groups want the courts to shut down Trump's move by declaring he's overstepped his authority, and order the Monument be left at its original 1.7 million acres.
Both the Citizens United and McCutcheon cases were brought by political actors alleging that the FEC had overstepped its bounds, and both cases ended in defeats for the commission.
Prosecutors are expected to depict Mr. Ghosn as a powerful executive who overstepped bounds by seeking ways to amass a hidden fortune on top of his already lucrative compensation. .
It is unclear whether Mr. Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter, and some former law enforcement officials outside the investigation have questioned whether agents overstepped in opening it.
According to the court's decision, the EPA overstepped its authority to grant the Holly Frontier and CVR waivers because the refineries had not received exemptions in the previous year.
The British Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament until after the Brexit deadline was unlawful, and that Mr. Johnson had overstepped his powers.
Trump's personal lawyers contend the committee overstepped its authority by subpoenaing the president's personal records, arguing the committee failed to identify a legitimate "legislative purpose" to support its demands.
Manafort had filed a lawsuit claiming that Mueller had overstepped the scope of his probe, but a federal judge rejected most of the arguments in the case on Wednesday.
The Trump administration's stated rationale for firing FBI Director James Comey Tuesday was that he overstepped the bounds of his office during the Hillary Clinton email investigation last year.
Many said Comey had overstepped his authority while handling the Hillary Clinton email scandal and behaved insubordinately to the attorney general, whom the director of the FBI reports to.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch, dissented, saying the majority had overstepped its authority by making factual rather than legal determinations.
The nation's largest broadband companies challenged the rules, arguing that the FCC, which has twice before seen its open internet policy thrown out in federal court, overstepped its authority.
The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court last December concluded Trump&aposs proclamation, like the two previous executive orders, overstepped his powers to regulate the entry of immigrants and visitors.
If in that case, a judge finds the FCC overstepped its authority when it revoked the 2015 Open Internet Order, then California's net neutrality law will, essentially, no longer matter.
Now those four students are suing the school district, arguing that it overstepped by suspending them, and claimed it subjected them to "public shaming" in front of their fellow classmates.
Big Telecom was not satisfied, so in September of last year lobbyists appealed to the Supreme Court, asking it to rule on net neutrality and whether the FCC had overstepped.
The 68-year-old actress, who won her first Oscar for the role, told the New York Times in a new interview that she felt Hoffman overstepped in that moment.
"There was direct interference in the Turkish judiciary and comments used which overstepped the mark," Turkey's foreign ministry said, referring to comments by the German government and foreign ministry spokesmen.
They argue that the EPA overstepped its regulatory authority under the federal Clean Air Act when the agency issued rules to curb greenhouse emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants.
Kellyanne Conway has defended Trump's attacks on her husband, saying Trump responded because he "is protective of me" and saying George Conway overstepped by diagnosing Trump with narcissistic personality disorder.
Student activists drawing attention to policing abuses, discrimination in higher education and other forms of racial injustice have sometimes overstepped, veering into misguided calls to suppress speech activists deemed offensive.
Eric Dickerson is convinced Ezekiel Elliott is innocent -- and says the NFL overstepped by punishing the Dallas Cowboys star after prosecutors declined to press charges in his domestic violence case.
Chipman said he has eight co-sponsors for his proposal to create a special committee to investigate that incident and seven others in which the governor allegedly overstepped his authority.
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ruled that the Labor Department, which oversees retirement accounts and created the so-called fiduciary rule, overstepped its authority and struck it down.
The protests aren't likely to convince China that it has overstepped in trying to curb Hong Kong's autonomy; instead, they're taken as a sign that China hasn't tried hard enough.
Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman, has said that the agency overstepped its reach in the past and that he aims to help fulfill Trump's promise to cut regulations for industry.
But Republicans, banks and much of the financial services industry has long insisted that the CFPB has overstepped its boundaries and faces no official accountability to Congress through its independence.
If Trump invoked the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to replace Sessions, a court may rule that Trump overstepped, Josh Chafetz, a professor of constitutional law at Cornell Law School, said.
Federal regulators have overstepped their role and infringed on the traditional model of state-centered decision-making by implementing duplicative regulatory burdens on the thousands of small-business independent producers.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Labor Department overstepped its authority by creating the so-called fiduciary rule, parts of which went into effect last year.
The speech by Mr. Barr last week, in which he argued that the president had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed them that they felt compelled to push back publicly.
The e-liquids manufacturer had argued that the FDA overstepped its legal authority under the Tobacco Control Act in subjecting e-cigarettes to the same federal laws as traditional cigarettes.
The chairman argues that the FCC under the Obama administration overstepped when it imposed the rules and reclassified internet providers as telecommunications services, opening the industry up to tougher regulations.
However, a court in Catalonia ruled there was evidence that Mas had failed to stop his administration from hiring third parties to manage the vote and had overstepped his authority.
Republicans, banks, and much of the financial services industry has long insisted that the CFPB has overstepped its boundaries and that faces no official accountability to Congress through its independence.
Apple, the maker of the iPhone, has so far refused, saying a "master key" creates cybersecurity threats to other iPhone users and the government has overstepped the boundaries of the law.
But Apple resisted legal pressure to unlock the phone's password, citing the chance of creating a more wide-spread security breach and arguing the investigation overstepped the bounds of the law.
At this point, either the White House has violated the vague limits set by Section 301 or Congress overstepped its authority in giving the executive branch authority that is too broad.
The House's legal counsel on Monday filed an amicus brief arguing before the Supreme Court that President Obama overstepped his authority in issuing executive actions to shield illegal immigrants from deportation.
The commission needs to do better this election cycle after 2012's embarrassing incident where moderator Candy Crowley overstepped her bounds and fumbled a fact-check of a Mitt Romney statement.
The saga raised fundamental questions about fairness on the field; how teams look for an edge; and whether the commissioner, who views himself as a stern taskmaster, had overstepped his bounds.
The American Farm Bureau Federation argued that the EPA overstepped its Clean Water Act authority with the program to reduce three pollutants that are common to agriculture in the bay's watershed.
But if the money was earmarked for a specific project, like a new roof, and the board instead funneled it to a pet project, then the board has overstepped its bounds.
Brown had tried to set a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030 via executive order, but California's Legislative Counsel Diane Boyer-Vine said the governor overstepped his authority in doing so.
Hire a lawyer to review the proprietary lease and any agreement between the co-op and the trust to determine your rights and ensure the board has not overstepped its bounds.
"The opinions show that, almost from the outset of the law in 2008, the intelligence community has overstepped the court-imposed legal restrictions on the operation of the surveillance," Rumold wrote.
A House panel on Wednesday questioned whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) overstepped its bounds with a rule cracking down on waivers meant to keep financial institutions out of court.
Mr. Trump canceled the program this week on the grounds that Mr. Obama overstepped his authority, but he called on Congress to authorize it before it phases out in six months.
"For the first time, there is real concern that Trump has overstepped his boundaries, which may create some chaos in the market," said Curtis Schenker, co-founder of Scoggin Capital Management.
At Wesleyan, the Eclectic Society, whose members lived in a large brick colonnaded house, was put on probation for two years, partly because its whimsical scrapbook-like application overstepped a line.
"We are asking the court to recognize that the Department of State illegally overstepped its role in issuing its new guidance on rental brokerage commissions," said James Whelan, the group's president.
"Even in Catholic media, limits can be overstepped, defamation and slander can become commonplace, and all ethical standards and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned," Francis said.
" They echoed the official remarks, adding that "in any prolonged situation of this nature, I would be dishonest if I tell you I believe that no one has overstepped the line.
In June 2015, the United States Court of Federal Claims ruled that the Federal Reserve had overstepped its authority in taking the stake in A.I.G. but said no damages were warranted.
In both cases, Mr. Barr highlighted his belief that law enforcement officials overstepped their authority when they decided to investigate Trump campaign aides and that the president ultimately did nothing wrong.
Senate Republicans have said the CFPB has overstepped its legal powers and are hoping Kraninger, who would take over from interim chief Mick Mulvaney, will continue to rein in the agency.
Clinton and praising Mr. Comey for reopening the investigation in October, there is no disputing the fact that Mr. Trump personally rejects the core arguments that his aides are now giving for his firing of the F.B.I. director: that Mr. Comey overstepped his role; that he disclosed information critical of Hillary Clinton in July when the F.B.I. closed its investigation; and that he overstepped again when he reopened and re-closed the investigation right before Election Day.
With Russia, the case tilts to a hidden response because the two countries have experience in covertly signaling each another (during the Cold War) when bounds looked as if they were overstepped.
If Democrats get their wishes, voters will see House Republicans as having overstepped -- launching a two-year investigation and spending more than $7 million, only to replicate the findings of earlier investigations.
If Cuomo and Vullo overstepped, according to Judge McAvoy, it was in allegedly threatening to use the power of their offices to squelch the NRA because they don't like the group's views.
Social conservatives say the U.S. Supreme Court overstepped its bounds in legalizing gay marriage and have tried to fight the ruling by saying it is an affront to constitutionally protected religious liberty.
And although he's a phenomenal player and had his own thing, I might have overstepped my authority, for lack of a better word, for what I thought he should be doing musically.
The lawyers believe the government overstepped its bounds by executing a warrant at a lawyer's office and have contended the government violated the attorney-client privilege between Mr. Cohen and his clients.
But Republicans have blasted Obama's use of executive power, saying he has overstepped his authority on issue after issue, most notably with an immigration order that is now before the Supreme Court.
These contracts, as well as provisions requiring third parties to receive Google's approval before making any change to the display of competing search ads, skirted the line and may have overstepped it.
In a brief filed Monday with the 85033th Circuit Court of Appeals, the attorneys general of Montana and Ohio argued that District Judge Reed O'Connor overstepped his authority in his original ruling.
The GOP and financial sector advocates say the CFPB had overstepped its mandate and abused its power under Democratic leadership, while Democrats accuse Republicans of gutting the agency to protect shady lenders.
You don't actually kill any of them—pretty sure that would have overstepped every last line—but it's one of the most fucked-up conclusions to a video game you'll ever see.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on March 15 that the Labor Department overstepped its authority by creating the so-called fiduciary rule, parts of which went into effect last year.
Rossello also escalated a war of words with the federal board in charge of managing Puerto Rico's finances, telling Reuters the board overstepped its authority in appointing an outside manager at PREPA.
Judge Mehta rejected the White House's argument that Congress overstepped its authority, noting that the key question is whether the congressional subpoena serves any legitimate legislative purpose -- even a broad or hypothetical one.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday handed a victory to congressional Republicans who challenged President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, ruling that his administration overstepped its constitutional powers relating to government spending.
The Republican-governed states that filed suit asserted that the Democratic president overstepped his authority provided in the Constitution while his administration said he merely provided guidance on how to enforce deportation laws.
Even today, Flint is under the scrutiny of a "transition advisory board" that has veto power over any local decision, and that has frequently overstepped its professed limited mandate to assure fiscal restraint.
And then you might say that they've overstepped their bounds and might as well just be liable for everything the way a newspaper would be, even though the statute doesn't say at all.
As he granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday, Judge Jon Tigar, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama, said the Trump administration had overstepped by making a radical change to established asylum law.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday said a House panel had overstepped its jurisdiction with its probe into the security of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, will try on Thursday to convince a judge to throw out charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, arguing Mueller has overstepped his authority.
It is the latest in a series of steps through which it has overstepped the limits of the 2015 pact, in response to the United States withdrawing from the accord and reimposing sanctions.
Carney, in a BBC television interview on Sunday, said he had "absolutely not" overstepped the mark and that he would be failing the British public if he did not flag risks in advance.
President Trump overstepped his legal authority on Monday when he shrunk one of Utah's national monuments by more than half its size ... according to a slew of wilderness groups taking 45 to court.
And since its passage, some critics, especially on the left, have said that it does not go far enough, excluding some workers from cash payments, for example, and leaving accountability measures easily overstepped.
A speech by Mr. Barr last week, in which he argued that Mr. Trump had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed a group of lawyers that they felt compelled to push back publicly.
"When the government overstepped its executive authority, M.P.s were successful in using formal institutions to take back control to try and fix the current crisis," said Alexandra Cirone, a Cornell University political scientist.
After a transplant with one diabetic patient raised hopes of a cure, laudatory media attention followed — which some, including the president of the American Diabetes Association at the time, felt overstepped the facts.
But opponents say the commission already has overstepped so many bounds, from its membership to procedural requirements like posting public documents and holding open meetings, that it now has to earn people's trust.
"We continue to believe that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overstepped its authority in an unprecedented fashion when it legislated from the bench," state House Speaker Mike Turzai said in a statement to HuffPost.
Downing said in court they've changed the civil complaint they have about Mueller's investigation to say that they now think only Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein overstepped his authority when he appointed Mueller.
The secret documents she helped make public showed abuses by the US government in terms of how it treated prisoners and how it, in many cases, overstepped boundaries in the name of counterterrorism.
He said he'd been inspired by a Wall Street Journal op-ed last spring by Steven Calabresi, the co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society, which argued Mueller has overstepped his constitutional authority.
They also argue the agency overstepped its authority in issuing rules intended to address discrimination in auto lending that also affect car dealers — an industry that was specifically carved out from the CFPB's purview.
Calling that provision a "troubling" restraint that places employers in a "precarious situation," Mendez said the state had overstepped its authority by "impermissibly discriminat[ing] against those who choose to deal with" federal authorities.
The central legal issue before the court is whether the FCC overstepped its regulatory authority in 2015 by reclassifying internet service providers, or ISPs, as "common carriers" under Title II of the Communications Act.
The Democratic president's plan was challenged in court by Republican-governed Texas and 25 other states that argued he overstepped the powers granted to him by the U.S. Constitution by infringing upon congressional authority.
A federal judge ruled that a Virginia state law fining Republican delegates up $2,500 if they didn't vote for the winner of the state primary overstepped the boundaries between the state and political parties.
In the firmly worded 2202-2628 decision, the court ruled in favor of financial services organizations who argued that DOL overstepped its authority by seeking to become the primary financial regulator for retirement accounts.
Three judges at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Schock's argument that federal investigators overstepped their authority when charging him with taking thousands of dollars in reimbursement claims from falsified car mileage reports.ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
The Ad Hoc Group also takes aim at the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board's motion to appoint Noel Zamot as chief transformation officer of PREPA, they allege it has entirely overstepped its authority.
UnitedHealth was down 2.9 percent at $126 after a judge ruled in favor of Republicans who challenged President Barack Obama's healthcare law, ruling that his administration had overstepped its constitutional powers on government spending.
The local gerrymandering suits say that Republicans in the Legislature overstepped their bounds by restructuring the Greensboro City Council and the board of commissioners and school board in Wake County, whose seat is Raleigh.
The president pro tempore of the State Senate, Joe Scarnati, refused to comply with the court's order to turn over data concerning the state's current district lines, arguing that the justices overstepped their authority.
If lawmakers truly believe Mr. Obama overstepped the law by trying to achieve immigration reform through executive orders, they ought to embrace the House's Dreamer bill and send it to the president to sign.
But despite the case providing evidence that FGM was indeed taking place on American soil, the Michigan district judge ruled Congress had overstepped on states' rights by enacting the statute in the first place.
Some critics in Norway argued that Knausgaard overstepped the bounds of decency by writing so forthrightly about real people's private problems, including the mental illness of his wife at the time, Linda Boström Knausgaard.
Ms. Chisholm was initially blocked from a televised debate, was derided by many of her black male colleagues in Congress who thought she had overstepped and was abandoned by white feminists like Gloria Steinem.
The memo came the month after a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from cutting off funding to sanctuary cities, determining that the president had overstepped his authority in attaching conditions to federal money.
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are demanding information on trade agreements announced between the United States and Japan, questioning whether the Trump administration overstepped its authority and bypassed Congress during negotiations.
The video app TikTok reversed its ban on an account belonging to an American teenager who criticized China's internment of minority Muslims, admitting that its moderation system had overstepped in shutting down her account.
Republican legislators around the country say liberal cities and counties vastly overstepped their bounds by implementing new taxes on sodas and sugary beverages, by raising local minimum wages or through strict new environmental regulations.
Regulatory decisions under President Barack Obama, who was among the most prolific authors of major regulations in presidential history, heightened the interest among conservative academics, who questioned whether agencies had overstepped their constitutional bounds.
Justice Department lawyers argued in the new filing that Robart overstepped his bounds by substituting his judgment for Trump's about the nature of the security threat posed by travelers from the seven affected countries.
Iran has steadily overstepped the deal's limits on its nuclear activities in response to the United States' withdrawal from the accord in 2018 and Washington's reimposition of sanctions that have crippled Iran's oil trade.
As they had just won their freedom from an oppressive government, they believed strongly in the collective right of the individual to defend himself or herself from a government that had overstepped its bounds.
States, industries take on the feds: First, states and the gas industry filed briefs in federal court against the Interior Department's new rules regulating fracking on public land, saying the move overstepped legal boundaries.
The D.C. Circuit Court ruled in early July that the Trump administration overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act when it tried to unilaterally delay the rule while it works to repeal it.
Lawyers for Mr. Lee and other executives said prosecutors had overstepped the bounds of the case by contending that Samsung was engaged in a long-term, covert effort to ensure the Lee family succession.
Christian Schertz, Boehmermann's lawyer in that case, said Merkel had overstepped her boundaries by calling Boehmermann's poem "deliberately insulting" and said that comment could have encouraged the Turkish government to take steps against Boehmermann.
Arguments will be heard Monday in a case brought by Texas, which, along with 25 other states, is questioning whether Obama overstepped his authority or ignored legal procedures when he made the immigration changes.
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union's top judge hit back at accusations that his court overstepped the mark with sweeping rulings imposed across the bloc, saying it was often left having to clear up vague legislation.
U.S. President Donald Trump is blocking appointments to the WTO's Appellate Body, saying its judges have overstepped their mandate and ignored their instructions, although Trump's critics say he simply resents their power over U.S. law.
In 2012, Kavanaugh wrote a 2–1 appeals court decision invalidating Environmental Protection Agency rules regulating air pollution that crosses state lines, arguing that the agency had overstepped its authority and siding with power companies.
It was quickly challenged in court by Republican-governed Texas and 25 other states that argued that Obama overstepped the powers granted to him by the U.S. Constitution by infringing upon the authority of Congress.
"The government overstepped its bounds with the Patriot Act and they are likely to do it again," he said, referring to a 21 law that eased federal investigators' access to people's communications and financial records.
U.S. Ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea has repeatedly criticized the WTO's Appellate Body, effectively the supreme court of world trade, saying it overstepped its authority and broke its own rules, potentially invalidating its judgments.
The groups are seeking to have the rule overturned on a number of legal grounds, including claims that the department overstepped its legal boundaries and violated federal rulemaking laws by conducting a flawed economic analysis.
"The government overstepped its bounds with the Patriot Act and they are likely to do it again," he said, referring to a 2001 law that eased federal investigators' access to people's communications and financial records.
Rosenstein's notion that Comey overstepped his bounds, broke protocol and generally politicized the Clinton investigation is accepted by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as many legal scholars and law enforcement officials.
The idea, presented to lawmakers on the House Natural Resources Committee during a hearing, was quickly rebuked by a top aide to Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello, who said the board had overstepped its authority.
At this point, it has little to do with the air pressure in footballs and everything to do with whether Commissioner Roger Goodell of the N.F.L. overstepped his role as arbitrator when players appeal penalties.
Hart's people cling to the notion that much of the public thinks the media has overstepped its bounds, but that doesn't prevent his fumbling response from creating a media whirlwind that essentially swallows him whole.
WASHINGTON — Key members of Congress say they will honor President Donald Trump's request to investigate his unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama overstepped his authority as president and had Trump's telephones tapped during the election campaign.
The United States is blocking new appointments because it says members of the WTO's Appellate Body, the world's top trade court, have strayed from their role, overstepped their mandate and broken their own procedural rules.
Mr. Comey's conduct during the hearing added to concerns of Mr. Sessions and Mr. Rosenstein that the F.B.I. director had botched the rollout of the Clinton investigation and had overstepped the boundaries of his job.
When a lower court certified the suit as a class action, Facebook appealed, arguing that the plaintiffs had failed to show concrete injury, and that the lower court overstepped its power by certifying the class.
" In a statement, police said protesters' actions were "outrageous and have overstepped the bottom line of a civilized society," and added that they "will take relentless enforcement action to bring the persons involved to justice.
Iran has already steadily overstepped the deals limits on its nuclear activities in response to the United States withdrawal from the accord in 2018 and Washington's reimposition of sanctions that have crippled Irans oil trade.
Uber argued that the Colima mobility law, passed last year, discriminated against users who do not have bank accounts and overstepped the state's bounds as the use of cash is governed by the federal government.
When Congress passed Title VII in 1964, the term "sex" was meant to refer to a person's biological sex, they said, and courts had overstepped by finding it also covered sexual orientation and transgender status.
In his one term as governor he overstepped when he signed a bill -- the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act -- permitting discrimination against gay people, and was forced to seek a change in the law.
Republicans have charged that the Obama administration overstepped its authority in 2014 when it proposed to block the mine and that the EPA decided long ago on that path, before conducting any research into it.
They had been conspicuously quiet as Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has launched proceedings to repeal the protections, arguing that the agency overstepped under the Obama administration by reclassifying internet service providers as common carriers.
But her critics say her cabinet has overstepped the bounds of a caretaker government by making changes to foreign policy, opening Morales' former living quarters for journalists to tour, and threatening to punish his allies.
Last week, a day after Zelensky met with Kolomoisky, police raided the headquarters of the bank and seized documents as part of a criminal investigation into whether some of its officials had overstepped their authority.
In its 2006 guidelines, the IRS distinguishes "issue advocacy" from political campaign intervention, outlining a set of circumstances that it takes into account when evaluating whether a 501(c)(3) organization has overstepped its boundaries.
Facebook has again overstepped its role of news aggregator to gatekeeper, and has simply proved that its ongoing role as one of the world's largest news disseminators must be regarded with suspicion, if not cynicism.
That measure — to require drug makers to include their list prices in television ads — was nixed by a district court judge in the District of Columbia on Monday, who said the administration had overstepped its authority.
Deripaska sued the United States earlier this month, alleging that it had overstepped its legal bounds in imposing sanctions on him and made him the "latest victim" in the U.S. probe into Moscow's alleged election interference.
"We also think that it is possible that the public protector has overstepped her powers in instructing Parliament to change the constitution and, therefore, her report is likely to face judicial review," Borain and Schultz said.
Republicans say the CFPB, which was created after the 2007-2009 financial crisis to protect consumers from predatory lenders, has overstepped its legal statute and are hoping to install a nominee who will rein it in.
Tweets from President Donald Trump and comments from TV talking heads including DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach suggested that with the December rate hike, the Federal Reserve has overstepped and killed economic growth and doomed us to recession.
In 2012, after Candy Crowley of CNN fact-checked Mitt Romney and corrected him during a debate with Barack Obama, she was criticized by Republicans for behavior that they claimed overstepped the bounds of a moderator.
However, it was quickly challenged in court by Republican-governed Texas and 25 other states that argued Obama had overstepped the powers granted to him by the U.S. Constitution by infringing upon the authority of Congress.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is typically the court's swing voter, seemed to side with Texas and the 21625 other states arguing the president overstepped his executive authority in granting deferred deportation to nearly 2900 million immigrants.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key members of Congress say they will honor President Donald Trump's request to investigate his unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama overstepped his authority as president and had Trump's telephones tapped during the election campaign.
Earlier in the day, Morales, 48, said he would respect the court's decision, stepping back from brinkmanship he displayed at the weekend when he said the court had overstepped its mandate by ruling on the case.
In my own career, I have overstepped the bounds in an abundance of caution, and I have worked with someone who insisted on remaining in school even though I thought a medical leave would be beneficial.
The court said the EPA overstepped its authority to grant waivers in the past for HollyFrontiers Woods Cross and Cheyenne refineries and CVR Energys Wynnewood refinery because the refineries had not received exemptions the previous year.
Mr. de Blasio said on Thursday that he would not veto the measure, but the dispute may outlast Ms. Mark-Viverito's tenure: It could result in a court fight over whether the Council overstepped its authority.
Robert Shibley, the executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an advocacy group, said the measures will be welcomed on college campuses where the department has overstepped in carrying out sexual assault investigations.
To her credit, Offred realizes this is a game, although there were moments when I worried she had grown so comfortable with the rhythm they've established that she overstepped what little freedom Fred had granted her.
Then and now, the issue remains largely partisan, with Democrats hailing Obama's programs as a necessary remedy to congressional inaction on immigration reform and Republicans hammering the president with charges that he's overstepped his executive authority.
The judge, William H. Orrick of United States District Court, wrote that the president had overstepped his powers with his January executive order on immigration by tying billions of dollars in federal funding to immigration enforcement.
Earlier this month, Manafort filed a civil lawsuit attempting to limit the scope of Mueller's probe, arguing that the special counsel overstepped his boundaries by investigating allegations that arose before his time on the Trump campaign.
LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Bank of England has not overstepped the mark in regulating lenders and interventions in politically sensitive sectors like housing have been modest rather than revolutionary, a BoE policymaker said on Tuesday.
In a game that prioritises the individual more than ever before, which elevates the ego, which pays vast sums in image rights, sponsorship and promotion to the biggest personalities, one man has just overstepped the mark.
But legal scholars say it is helping to erode the idea of an impartial judiciary, and Judge Alsup's decision opened him to critiques that he overstepped his boundaries by applying national orders in a regional case.
Industry groups and 228 states are currently suing to overturn the Clean Power Plan in court, arguing that the EPA overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate CO22005 in the way it did.
VICE News found out why: Chinese authorities have so far declined to apprehend the men, with one top official claiming that the U.S. overstepped its authority and failed to provide enough evidence to justify their arrest.
The state of Maryland launched a court challenge on Tuesday to the legality of President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general, saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority and broke federal law.
The report was released yesterday and found that the NFL repeatedly overstepped its bounds and ultimately backed out of its promise to fund the study because their handpicked group—which included Ellenbogen—was not awarded the study.
El Paso County, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights say Trump overstepped his authority when he issued the declaration to gain access to additional funds for his border wall, despite receiving $1.375 billion from Congress.
Last April, US District Judge William Orrick in California blocked key sections of Trump's executive order to starve sanctuary jurisdictions from federal money, saying the executive branch overstepped its bounds by grabbing purse strings reserved for Congress.
CMS said the policy, which would cut payments by $760 million in 2019, "will control unnecessary volume increases," but hospitals are arguing the government overstepped its legal authority by "making draconian payment reductions targeting only specific services."
When Pruitt "maintains that the agency's Obama-era leaders vastly overstepped EPA's authority by issuing regulations such as its greenhouse gas limits for power plants," as Guillén writes, he is simply incorrect as a matter of law.
Pruitt's strategy: EPA boss Scott Pruitt, in proposing to repeal a rule he said overstepped the bounds of the Clean Air Act, held out the prospect of replacing it with something much more modest — at some point.
The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in 2008 when it exempted farms from two federal laws that require businesses to report when they release hazardous chemicals into the air, a federal appeals court held on Tuesday.
But some critics have argued that the bureau overstepped that line with FBI Director Comey's July press conference, which criticized Hillary Clinton's use of a private server for classified communication while simultaneously declining to recommend criminal charges.
Already, the courts have limited lawmakers' power to remove judges, overturned a law meant to stabilize the economy and ratified an emergency decree that was rejected by legislators on the grounds that it overstepped Mr. Maduro's authority.
This week's ruling over how Ireland treated Apple and its tax practices has led to an increasingly bitter debate between Margrethe Vestager, Europe's top competition official, and those who argue that her agency has overstepped its remit.
Critics say Grenell has repeatedly overstepped the bounds of his role as President Donald Trump's envoy to Berlin, including with his recent meetings with German car company executives about a deal on European duties on U.S. cars.
HOUSE PANEL QUESTIONS CFPB ARBITRATION RULE: A House panel on Wednesday questioned whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) overstepped its bounds with a rule cracking down on waivers meant to keep financial institutions out of court.
"We believe the filing is a misguided attempt to deflect from the fact that defendants overstepped their legal and regulatory authority -- to the detriment of the Constitution and New York insurance consumers," William A. Brewer III said.
Lawyers for two human rights groups challenged the legality of the ban to the top court, saying the order infringes basic freedoms and that mayors have overstepped their powers by telling women what to wear on beaches.
"Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit FGM ... FGM is a 'local criminal activity' which, in keeping with longstanding tradition and our federal system of government, is for the states to regulate, not Congress," he added.
In the filing, the plaintiffs will argue that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have succeeded Sessions and that Trump overstepped his authority in tapping Whitaker, who served as Sessions' chief of staff, the Times' report said.
In passing the resolution, Congress not only tried to claw back its constitutional powers from the president but also asserted that the executive had overstepped his bounds as commander in chief, going to war without Congress's approval.
Israel maintains that, with the show in Berlin, and tours, lectures and events to accompany it, the museum has overstepped "the boundaries of the definition of its activities," Emmanuel Nahshon, a spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry, said.
In a lawsuit filed this week, the American Health Care Association and four other state and local health care groups argue CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services overstepped their authority in issuing the rule.
He and other gun rights activists challenging the ban argued that former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker overstepped his authority by redefining "bump stock" in order to make them subject to the federal ban on machine guns.
In their legal challenge, the nation's largest cable and phone companies argued that the FCC overstepped its authority in 2015 by reclassifying internet service providers, or ISPs, as "common carriers" under Title II of the Communications Act.
LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's devolved parliament partially overstepped its constitutional reach when it passed a Brexit bill designed to ensure it kept all its powers after Britain leaves the European Union, the British Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lawyers for climate change activists in the Extinction Rebellion movement argued in London's High Court Thursday that a police order barring further demonstrations midway through two weeks of planned October protests overstepped the law.
"It appears to the court that neither the Texas Legislature nor the (university's) Board of Regents has overstepped its legitimate power to determine where a licensed individual may carry a concealed handgun in an academic setting," Yeakel said.
PARIS, Jan 13 (Reuters) - French stock market watchdog AMF will look closely at information provided by Casino and Muddy Waters LLC to see whether the U.S. short-seller overstepped the mark in a report criticising the French retailer.
The 2014 referendum was run by volunteers to bypass legal restrictions, but the Catalonia court said there was evidence Mas had failed to prevent recruitment of people to help run it and that he had overstepped his authority.
Trump's move, announced in a rambling, improvised address from the Rose Garden shortly after signing the declaration, will launch a fierce constitutional battle in the courts with lawmakers and outside groups who say the president overstepped his authority.
The speaker of the Moldovan parliament, an ally of Prime Minister Pavel Filip, said the ruling coalition would take on board some of the technical findings, but took issue with others, saying the experts had overstepped their remit.
Kagan and Breyer joined him, though, in a 7–2 ruling that rejected the A.C.A.'s expansion of Medicaid, arguing that the Obama Administration had overstepped constitutional bounds by trying to compel states to participate in the program.
The program had never gone into effect, because a federal judge and a federal appeals court both ruled that President Obama had overstepped his constitutional authority in directing federal authorities to stop enforcing the laws on the books.
World number three Rory McIlroy complained the partisan home crowd "overstepped the boundaries" while Ryder Cup veteran Sergio Garcia said 15 percent of the spectators had been "really bad" and that he "felt ashamed" for his American girlfriend.
The states that sued to stop the programs say Mr. Obama overstepped his powers and gave lawbreakers a quasi-legal status that Congress never approved, one that would burden their budgets with costs of services for the immigrants.
No matter what you think of Gawker — which has definitely overstepped the line of decency many times — Thiel's secretly funded set of lawsuits against the media company seem inconsistent with Mark Zuckerberg's strong defense of freedom of speech.
Noting that many in Birmingham are "repulsed by the monument," Jefferson County Circuit Court judge Michael Graffeo said the state of Alabama overstepped its authority when it sued to get the soldier monument uncovered, according to court filings.
In court papers filed on Wednesday in Ingham County Circuit Court in Michigan, lawyers for Mr. Nassar said that the judge, Rosemarie Aquilina, had overstepped legal bounds when she sentenced him to 40 to 175 years in prison.
"My first instinct was that my campaign should hit back and explain that Mr. Comey had badly overstepped his bounds," she wrote in the book, her attempt to make sense of her electoral defeat by Donald J. Trump.
The judiciary ruled that George W. Bush overstepped his bounds in denying due process to terrorism suspects and that Barack Obama assumed power he did not have to allow millions of unauthorized immigrants to stay in the country.
Given their history, Germans have shown little tolerance when the Alternative for Germany has overstepped social and historical boundaries, like when one regional leader, Björn Höcke, questioned the tradition of remembrance and atonement for the country's Nazi crimes.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has been a vocal force in these efforts -- leading fundraising efforts for his own members and taking vocal stances against Trump (despite endorsing him) when he feels the new GOP leader has overstepped his bounds.
That vindicates what has always been the real charge: not that the Russians swayed the election, a claim that is impossible to verify, but that Mr Trump's team overstepped the bounds of propriety, and maybe the law (see article).
That could mean that Franken is trying to defend himself against shoes he knows are going to drop in the future — or it could mean he simply never registered occasions when his behavior overstepped boundaries or made women uncomfortable.
One can imagine a sort of inverted Turing test in which the judge is on trial; until he or she can spot the weaknesses, the overstepped boundaries, the gaps in a system, no license to operate will be issued.
At first glance, it really did look like CBP had overstepped its bounds with this one—especially taking into consideration what the authorizing statute actually says and the extra-clumsy move of putting the wrong date on the summons.
Facebook has appealed a February ruling from Germany's Federal Cartel Office that called into question Facebook's business model and said it "overstepped" the boundaries of GDPR, especially in light of what it called "Facebook's dominant position" in the market.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The state of Maryland launched a court challenge on Tuesday to the legality of President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general, saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority and broke federal law.
By May 2006, Bethea's team of attorneys, eventually including prominent gadfly and alleged criminal Michael Avenatti, were preparing to appeal Walter's decision on grounds that the judge had overstepped his authority in deciding what a reasonable jury could find.
Before long, no fewer than 150 entities — including 27 states, 24 trade associations, 37 rural electric co-ops and three labor unions — challenged the plan in court, arguing that the EPA overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act.
Other Republicans have followed suit after coming to believe Guatemalan political and economic elites' criticisms that CICIG and Commissioner Iván Velásquez Gómez had overstepped their bounds Our relative silence following Morales' announcement of CICIG's expulsion undermines our national interests.
In his letter on Tuesday, Carr defended the Republican position that the FCC overstepped its authority by setting limits on the rates of intrastate calls, though he maintained that Pai believed that prisoners are paying too much for calls.
Gaetz is a frequent critic of the Justice Department, saying during the 2016 campaign and after Trump was elected that it overstepped its bounds in investigating allegations of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the presidential race.
Mr. Deutsch has said he believed that the federal Education Department had overstepped in its interpretation of Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, and that students' biological sex should determine which restroom they use.
A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the Department of Labor overstepped its authority when it wrote a rule that required financial professionals, including brokers and insurance agents, to put their customers' financial interests ahead of their own.
Mr. Manafort, the former chairman of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign, has pleaded not guilty and has told others he is not interested in a pardon because he believes he has done nothing wrong and the government overstepped its authority.
It also includes a handful of policy riders designed to block environmental regulations, and it cuts funding for enforcing those rules currently on hold in the courts system, the "areas where the EPA has clearly overstepped its bounds," Sen.
The same court had ruled July 85033 that the EPA overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act when it put a 90-day pause on the Obama administration's rule limiting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling operations.
In a victory for environmentalists who had supported the Obama rule, the appeals court vacated the Wyoming District Court's ruling from last year that the BLM had overstepped its authority and cannot regulate fracking on federal land at all.
"My first instinct was that my campaign should hit back hard and explain to the public that Comey had badly overstepped his bounds — the same argument [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein would make months after the election," Clinton wrote.
The Trump administration has also argued that DACA, which defers deportation for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children, is illegal because former president Barack Obama overstepped his authority in 2012 when he created the program.
Bill Johnson, head of the National Association of Police Organizations, which represents about 241,000 officers, said he expects local police associations to examine existing consent decrees to see whether the Justice Department under Obama overstepped in imposing any measures.
While Republicans in Congress have generally taken a hard line on illegal immigration and are sympathetic to the argument that Obama overstepped his bounds in creating DACA, several have stepped forward to call for action to protect the Dreamers.
Like the over-familiar housemate who you're big mates with until they start eating your hummus out the fridge without even thinking to ask first, Urban Outfitters have seemingly overstepped the line with Coachella, and now they're getting sued.
A War Powers Resolution (WPR) is first and foremost Congress clawing back its constitutional powers from the president; it is an assertion that the executive has overstepped their bounds as commander in chief, going to war without Congress's approval.
The legal experts said Trump's declaration could be challenged on at least two fronts: that there is no genuine emergency and that Trump's action overstepped his powers because under the U.S. Constitution Congress has authority over federal appropriations, not the president.
The Pentagon's decision to divert funds was greeted on Thursday with criticism by a few prominent members of Mr. Trump's party, who joined Democrats in saying the president's team had overstepped its constitutional authority by second-guessing congressional spending decisions.
Obama, who unveiled his plan in November 2014 before it was quickly challenged by Texas and 25 other states that argued he overstepped his constitutional powers, called the decision frustrating for those aiming to fix the broken U.S. immigration system.
Given the rowdy atmosphere around Twenty20 matches, he can expect to hear plenty of shouts of 'no ball' — the offense he committed in 2010 when he overstepped the bowler's mark on deliveries predetermined with a fixer — whenever and wherever he bowls.
The court in a 2353-3 ruling said McAuliffe overstepped his clemency powers under the state constitution by issuing a sweeping order in April restoring rights to all ex-offenders who are no longer incarcerated or on probation or parole.
In June 2015, Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler agreed with Starr that the New York Fed overstepped its authority in arranging the $85 billion loan, but he refused to award damages because AIG would have gone bankrupt without it.
They've overstepped in myriad ways that are currently eroding the rule of law in the United States, doing everything from refusing to honor lawful subpoenas from Congress for President Trump's tax returns to opening investigations into the president's political opponents.
US District Judge Amit Mehta of the District of Columbia vacated Monday the Department of Health and Human Services' rule that would have required drug makers to include their list prices in TV ads, saying the agency had overstepped its authority.
If the justices conclude that the state legislature overstepped its authority and strike down the law "it's going to do an injustice to adult survivors everywhere," said Lani Wallace, an attorney in Utah who works with child sex abuse survivors.
Opponents say the Department of Education has overstepped by calling for an end to this practice of underfunding students in Title I schools, arguing that some who voted for ESSA only intended to make spending at the school level more transparent.
Several healthcare and employment law experts said if Trump's plan moves forward, states could argue the federal government had overstepped its authority in violation of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), a law that governs large-group plans.
LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Scotland's devolved parliament partially overstepped its constitutional reach when it passed a Brexit bill that was designed to ensure it kept all its powers after Britain leaves the European Union, the British Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
In their suit in May, the states said Democratic President Barack Obama's administration overstepped its authority by ordering public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms matching their gender identity, rather than their birth gender, or risk losing federal funding.
In June 2015, Court of Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler agreed with Starr that the New York Fed overstepped its authority in arranging the $85 billion loan, but he refused to award damages because AIG would have gone bankrupt without it.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana, sided with the groups, ruling last September that the agency had overstepped its authority and had failed to apply the best available science in its evaluation, including ongoing threats to the bears.
Iran's move was the latest in a series of steps through which Tehran has overstepped the limits of its 2015 nuclear pact with world powers, in response to the United States withdrawing from the accord last year and reimposing sanctions.
There's a good chance he tossed them after our breakup — I can concede that I may have overstepped the bounds of reasonable product storage — but I like to think I've been a beauty fairy godmother to his later Tinder hook-ups.
Trump is still livid about the raid on his private attorney Michael Cohen -- "He'll be pissed about it until he dies," another source said -- and he and his allies are increasingly convinced that Mueller and Rosenstein have overstepped their bounds.
And while the states argue that the president overstepped his legal authority by making unauthorized aliens eligible for work, Anil Kalhan, an associate professor of law at Drexel University, said there is nothing in Obama's actions that explicitly grants work permits.
WikiLeaks put out a press release to go with the information, saying that the data was provided anonymously by a source who wanted to raise policy questions, specifically about whether the CIA had overstepped its hacking capabilities exceeded its authority.
Last month, a federal judge ordered the FDA to impose a 10-month deadline for submissions of e-cigarette applications, finding it had overstepped its authority by allowing the products to stay on the market until 2022 without regulatory approval.
The "dear colleague" letter, along with two dozen others, has since been rescinded by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that his predecessors overstepped their bounds and that it should be left to Congress to arrive at solutions through legislation.
KIEV, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine's largest lender, PrivatBank, said police had raided its headquarters on Wednesday after a court allowed them to do so as part of a criminal investigation into whether some of its officials had overstepped their authority.
In January 2016, the AMF said it would look closely at information provided by Casino and Muddy Waters to see whether the U.S. short-seller and research firm had overstepped the mark when it published its December critique into Casino.
The mixed ruling allowed the government's dismantling of strict regulations for companies that connect consumers to the internet, but also said that the Federal Communications Commission had overstepped by broadly blocking state and local governments from writing their own rules.
And already there are charges that the president overstepped, and that the decision to kill General Suleimani — if it was a decision, and the Iranian leader was not simply in the wrong convoy at the wrong moment — required congressional approval.
Republicans spent his last appearance in front of the committee in April arguing that President Trump should fire Cordray, insisting that the CFPB routinely overstepped legal and jurisdictional boundaries and prized flashy, expensive fines over consumer freedom to grab headlines.
In a pair of tweets, the president quoted remarks Dershowitz made on Fox News and later expanded upon in an op-ed for The Hill, in which Dershowitz argued that Mueller is performing a "legal colonoscopy" and has overstepped his bounds.
As The Hill's Harper Neidig reports, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled  2-1 that the FCC overstepped its authority by trying to set limits on intrastate phone call rates, but said FCC's rule capping interstate rates is permissible.
Within days of the committee's decision, the Government Justice Center, an Albany-based nonprofit, sued to overturn it, saying that only the Legislature could set pay, and that the panel had overstepped its statutory mandate by imposing outside pay limits.
The court is led by a five-member conservative majority, but it has shown skepticism of presidential excesses in recent years, reining in both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama when the justices concluded they had overstepped their authority.
Trump, who has long complained the Russia probe has overstepped its bounds, referred to reports that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., met in August 2016 with an envoy representing the crown princes of United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Republicans — not all, but many of them — wanted to shift the focus of the session to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, and worked to imply that the FBI may have overstepped or illegally spied Trump and his campaign.
The suit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights earlier in January, argues that by condemning prisoners to Guantánamo and endorsing no further releases, Trump has denied them due process and overstepped his legal authority to fight the War on Terror.
Republicans who have been pushing for limits on the Fed's ability to decide policy believe the central bank has overstepped its mandate by using extraordinary measures to stimulate the economy since the financial crisis, and they say reforms are a priority next year.
The Spanish government called the speech confrontational and a member of the Catalan parliament for Rajoy's People's Party (PP), Andrea Levy, said on Monday in a television interview that Madrid would apply direct rule again if the new administration overstepped the law.
While we all recognize that certain regulation is a necessary and expected part of operating in today's environment, the federal government has overstepped its boundaries, using burdensome rules to constrict business operations and oppress growth at a time when it should be promoted.
The action came after U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the high court to intervene and skip over the appeals court, contending the federal judge in Manhattan, Jesse Furman, overstepped his authority and quicker action was necessary to prepare the census questionnaires.
The first explanation was that Comey was fired because of a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that outlined the various ways he had overstepped his duties and responsibilities during the 2016 presidential campaign, including his treatment of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In a stinging rebuke five weeks ago, however, Magistrate Judge James Orenstein said in a 50-page ruling that the Justice Department had overstepped its authority in trying to use a 1789 statute called the All Writs Act to compel Apple's cooperation.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has filed a lawsuit claiming the National Labor Relations Board overstepped its authority when it reversed the union's victory in an election to represent a group of Boeing Inc mechanics in South Carolina.
Critics of college sexual assault policies, including men's rights activists, say that in universities' rush to respond to reports of widespread sexual violence on campus — and to atone for past mishandling of these cases — they have overstepped their authority to punish accused students.
The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, claims that the panel — the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known as Jcope — overstepped its mandate in January when it adopted an advisory opinion that reinterpreted the definition of the lobbying.
Three IT companies filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, which called for an injunction on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) recent policy changes that increased scrutiny for H-1B employers who send their workers to third-party worksites, claiming USCIS overstepped its authority.
Mulvaney, who is now serving as White House acting chief of staff, had long been a foe of the CFPB, arguing as a South Carolina congressman that the agency had overstepped the boundaries established when it was created early in the Obama administration.
The luxury box suites, steakhouse dinners and champagne-fueled parties can return to an obscure corner of the real estate world, after a judge ruled that New York State's efforts to ban entertainment in the title insurance industry had overstepped its authority.
The department's assessment, made public on Thursday, came after an in-depth review by the Justice Department's internal watchdog found the FBI manipulated evidence and otherwise overstepped its bounds as it explored possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow in 2016.
The war-crimes case of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher has left President Donald Trump in a fraught relationship with the Pentagon as some feel he overstepped his bounds by meddling in the case, according to a new report by The New York Times.
Trump particularly directed his condemnation at EPA, which had grossly overstepped its legal authority by imposing regulations that did little to protect human health or the environment, but were costing the United States jobs, undermining our international economic competitiveness, and raising energy prices.
The FCC, led by Republican Chairman Ajit Pai, voted 85033-2 along party lines in December to overturn net neutrality rules supported by Netflix, Google and other major tech companies, arguing the board overstepped its bounds when implementing the rules in 2015.
Republicans had attacked President Obama for years with allegations that he overstepped his authority, citing a host of actions that included tougher environmental rules, recess appointments to administrative posts and the creation of the Deferred Action to Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Australia said on Monday they would work to bolster law-enforcement ties as the two countries are separately cooperating on a politically charged probe examining whether U.S. officials overstepped when they investigated Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska sued the United States on Friday, alleging that it had overstepped its legal bounds in imposing sanctions on him and made him the "latest victim" in the U.S. probe into Moscow's alleged election interference.
An administrative court ruled last week that the mayor of Langouet, in Brittany, had overstepped his authority by banning spraying pesticides within 150 meters of residential housing in his village in a bid to protect residents from molecules considered a health risk.
While the NFL ruled in August that there was "substantial and persuasive evidence" that Elliott "engaged in physical violence against" his ex-girlfriend Tiffany Thompson, Elliott, the NFLPA, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones claim the Commissioner overstepped his bounds since no charges were ever filed.
India's Supreme Court ruled that the Reserve Bank of India had overstepped its mark when directing banks to declare a default when a company defers loan payments, and force the company into bankruptcy if it does not resolve its debt position within 180 days.
Tom Lorenzen, a Crowell & Moring attorney who is representing energy cooperatives challenging the plan, argues that by going beyond regulating individual plants to "shut down disfavored units"—namely, coal-burning plants—the EPA has "gone outside the fence line" and hence overstepped its legal authority.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police overstepped the law in issuing a blanket ban on protests by Extinction Rebellion climate activists in October, London High Court judges ruled on Wednesday, in a decision the group hailed as "an immense victory for the right to protest".
The court ruled that the European Union had not overstepped its bounds in limiting the nicotine content of e-cigarettes to 20 percent of the liquid that is used in them and imposing bans on e-cigarette advertising similar to those affecting traditional tobacco products.
The coalition contractor said that Trump's bizarre tweet Monday — in which he threatened to destroy the Turkey's economy if it overstepped in its offensive — was likely to aggravate to situation and possibly push Turkey to act even quicker to take control of key areas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate change strategy faced a key test on Tuesday as conservative appeals court judges questioned whether his administration overstepped its legal authority under an air pollution law to make sweeping changes to the U.S. electric sector.
The latest lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Nebraska, says that federal agencies like the Justice Department and the Education Department overstepped their authority with the directive, which requires schools to allow students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthTrump signs two-year budget deal Lawmakers point to entitlements when asked about deficits House Problem Solvers are bringing real change to Congress MORE (Ky.), a Democrat who supported Mulvaney's nomination for White House budget director last year, said Mulvaney had overstepped.
During a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson questioned Manafort's attorney Kevin Downing's assertion that Special Counsel Robert Mueller overstepped his authority in bringing charges that Downing said fell outside of parameters set by the Justice Department's No. 2 official Rod Rosenstein.
That&aposs one of the questions being posed by the lawyers of an alleged Virginia bank robber, who claims local police overstepped their bounds and committed privacy violations when they requested data from Google on him and 18 others near the vicinity of the crime.
If the administration overreaches, implementing a top-down policy—such as a federal ESA or a tax-credit scholarship with the typical strings attached—it will not only have overstepped its authority, perpetuating the big government approach that created this problem in the first place.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case probing the limits of presidential powers as the justices considered whether President Barack Obama overstepped his authority with unilateral action to protect millions of people in the country illegally from deportation.
Earlier this year a group of lawmakers started an effort to impeach him, contending the governor overstepped his authority by threatening to withhold funds from a nonprofit group that hired a political rival, but that effort collapsed before making it to the full House.
They have really overstepped their bounds, and I think what you're seeing is a growing level of frustration by people who, whether or not they know the law or not, they know when they're being abused or treated unjustly or being denied due dignity.
ISTANBUL, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Twitter on Friday the Constitutional Court had overstepped limits set out in the law with its ruling to release two journalists on the grounds their rights had been violated while in custody.
The problem is not that we have overstepped by attacking Al Qaeda; it is that we have allowed ourselves to become sidetracked by diversions, like Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Moammar Gaddafi, each of whose country became a haven for terrorists after we deposed him.
In an early test case of the limits of disciplinary action in the #MeToo era, an arbitrator has ruled that New York City Ballet overstepped when it fired two principal male dancers accused of sharing sexually explicit photos of female dancers, the company said Friday.
And if Republican lawmakers harbored any expectation that this ritual of the campaign cycle would end — the grimacing through questions about Mr. Trump, the hedging when asked if their party's leader had overstepped — these early days have supplied a decisive verdict: not so much.
A successor who is more of a loyalist to Mr. Trump might be more amenable to interpreting Mr. Mueller's jurisdiction narrowly or to firing him, either by declaring that Mr. Mueller has overstepped or by removing the regulation that protects him from arbitrary removal.
The lawsuit, brought by El Paso County, Texas, and Border Network for Human Rights, argued that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he issued a national emergency declaration to gain access to additional funds for his border wall, despite receiving $1.375 billion from Congress.
The lawsuit, brought by El Paso County, Texas, and Border Network for Human Rights, argued that Trump overstepped his authority when he issued a national emergency declaration to gain access to additional funds for his border wall, despite receiving the $1.375 billion from Congress.
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. consumer financial watchdog on Friday outlined how it would define "abusive" practices when overseeing companies, in another win for the industry, which has long complained that the agency has overstepped its remit by applying the term far too aggressively.
Speaking for an hour at the upscale Mayflower Hotel a few blocks from the White House, Mr. Barr hit back at the president's critics on an array of fronts as he argued that Mr. Trump, in his capacity as president, has not overstepped his authority.
Mr Conway also pointed out that when Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign manager, tried to dismiss the indictment against him on the grounds that Mr Mueller had overstepped his official remit, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia "squarely rejected this assertion".
While a business has every right to manage and wipe its own apps and data, IT has overstepped with some of its remote management capabilities — including its ability to erase entire devices, access personal data, track a phone's location, restrict personal use of apps and more.
Following a December rate increase that was a matter of particular controversy, Bullard is the first Fed official to suggest the central bank had in fact overstepped, and may now be actually curbing growth — and the rate of price increases — even though it does not intend to.
In their lawsuit, the American Health Care Association and four other state and local health care groups, are claiming that CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services overstepped their authority in issuing the rule since Congress has repeatedly rejected legislation to invalidate arbitration agreements.
Trump also used an executive order to block federal funds from going to cities that limit federal immigration enforcement in their jurisdictions in January, but a judge put a temporary stop to it in late April, saying the president had overstepped his power in the order.
Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (Ore.) said U.S. intelligence may have overstepped its bounds.
The American Health Care Association (AHCA) and a group of nursing homes had sued CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services in October, claiming that the rule violated the Federal Arbitration Act and that the agencies had overstepped their statutory authority in issuing the law.
As special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump encroaches further into the President's inner circle, his allies outside the White House are ramping up their efforts both to defend him and to encourage a tougher stance against a probe they claim has dramatically overstepped its bounds.
They're accustomed to having their campaigns funded by the coal and oil industries and worried they will receive no such donations from the sun, have opposed the Clean Power Plan on the grounds that it overstepped its bounds and that's it's not reasonable to ask so much.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, argues that Trump overstepped his legal authority in attempting to place Mulvaney in the post, maintaining Cordray had legal grounds to name his successor until a full-time director is named by Trump and confirmed by the Senate.
What the dramatic courtroom scene might mean for President Trump depends on what Mr. Gates has to offer the special counsel, though at the least, the plea agreement is further evidence that the Trump campaign attracted a cast of advisers who overstepped legal and ethical boundaries.
But the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department ruled the trial judge had overstepped in tossing out the conviction because the law was drafted broadly enough to cover the taking of computer code, even if that technology did not exist at the time.
A New York federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a lower court judge had overstepped his authority by shaving 10 years off the sentence of a Brooklyn mobster who, while imprisoned, helped the government find a cache of explosives left over from the Oklahoma City bombing.
In October, a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Congress had overstepped its authority in how it set up the agency, and that the president should be able to remove the director at will.
If the Bush administration overstepped privacy laws and basic decency, it did so only after careful in-house legal consideration and congressional oversight — even though some who approved these collection methods (he's talking about you, Senator Dianne Feinstein, among others) preferred to pretend later that they were shocked.
"My first instinct was that my campaign should hit back hard and explain to the public that Comey had badly overstepped his bounds -- the same argument Rod Rosenstein would make months after the election," she writes, referencing the letter Trump's deputy attorney general wrote to justify firing Comey.
Washington (CNN)The White House has assembled the paperwork to pardon dozens of people, two sources with knowledge of the developments tell CNN, signaling that President Donald Trump is poised to exert his constitutional power and intervene, in some instances, where he believes the Justice Department has overstepped.
So while statutory interpretation tends to focus on what exactly the majority meant when its representatives passed the statutes in question, constitutional interpretation needs to focus on the quality of the majority's will — that is, on whether the majority overstepped its bounds and thereby encroached on an individual's rights.
A large group of bondholders of Puerto Rico's beleaguered power utility say that the extent of the damages to the island's power grid have been grossly exaggerated and that the Oversight Board has overstepped its authority by attempting to appoint a chief transformation officer to manage the bankrupt utility.
In a 40-minute hearing that went deep into the legal morass of which courts could properly hear challenges to the controversial plan, there seemed to be little appetite by the three appellate judges to rule that the administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS)  has overstepped its authority.
Governor Ricardo Rossello and Puerto Rico's legislature filed lawsuits in July claiming the board, which was created by the U.S. Congress under the so-called PROMESA Act in 2016, overstepped its power by imposing a belt-tightening fiscal plan and budget on the government that require public policy actions.
In a tweet, the president said the agency should have pushed for the Supreme Court to intervene after a Tuesday decision issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that said Arizona overstepped by refusing to issue driver's licenses to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients.
Now many men who like to think they treat women as equals in the workplace are starting to look back at their own behavior and are wondering if they, too, have overstepped at work — in overt or subtle ways that would get them included in a #MeToo post.
In January, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenged the program, saying the EPA overstepped its authority by granting those waivers because the RFS requires them to take the form of "extensions" after the year 2010, and none of the refineries had received them in the previous year.
The lawsuit — joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia — asserts that the Obama administration overstepped its authority when it created the DACA program, which allows individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children to remain in the country, without congressional approval.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday said a House panel had overstepped its jurisdiction with its probe into the security of former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
Lawyers for House Speaker Mike Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati argue that the state's high court overstepped its authority in setting a deadline for lawmakers to draw new maps -- and then, when the GOP-led Legislature missed that deadline, producing new maps on its own.
The repeal proposal, which was obtained by several news outlets, argues that the Obama administration overstepped its legal authority by forcing utilities around the country to reduce carbon emissions outside their actual facilities — by replacing coal plants with wind and solar farms, for instance, according to The New York Times.
In the suit, filed in US District Court for the District of Columbia, Merck, Eli Lilly, Amgen and the Association of National Advertisers say the rule will mislead patients about how much they have to pay for medication and that the Department of Health and Human Services overstepped its authority.
With an angry insurgency of white, working-class voters propelling Donald Trump's agenda to wall off Mexicans, ban Muslims and batten down the hatches against products made in China and elsewhere, even the most articulate champions of the liberal trading order wonder whether Washington's globalization campaign may have finally overstepped.
The Saudi rulers are expected to say that General Assiri received oral authorization from Prince Mohammed to capture Mr. Khashoggi for an interrogation in Saudi Arabia, but either misunderstood his instructions or overstepped that authorization and took the dissident's life, according to two of the people familiar with the Saudi plans.
The Department of Justice submitted a brief with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that the House Judiciary Committee overstepped its authority by seeking a court order to compel McGahn to testify and that it plans to take the fight to the Supreme Court if it loses on appeal.
When Congress is not doing its job or not keeping its promises, like repealing Obamacare, or when the Supreme Court has overstepped its bounds, like unilaterally amending the Constitution through judicial decisions, the states have the ability to push back and return the federal government to its rightful place and rightful size.
Those criticisms are not controversial on Capitol Hill, where Comey is widely viewed to have overstepped his bounds at the infamous press conference last July, in which he said that Clinton had carelessly handled sensitive information as secretary of State but that there was no legal case to support charges against her.
On Tuesday, the state of Maryland went to court, telling a federal judge that Trump had overstepped his constitutional authority by selecting Whitaker, and on Monday the city of San Francisco, which is also involved in litigation against the Trump administration, told the Justice Department it may sue to challenge Whitaker's appointment.
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Monday night, the group of Democratic state attorneys general also argued that the commission overstepped its authority in ruling that states could not implement their own net neutrality protections following the repeal of the federal rules.
On Tuesday, Ms. Lewis and Songwriters of North America, an advocacy group she helped found a year ago, sued the Justice Department, saying that the agency overstepped its authority and that its ruling violated the property rights of songwriters by potentially nullifying private contracts between writers who have worked on the same song.
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Monday night, the group of Democratic state attorneys general also argued that the commission overstepped its authority in ruling that states could not implement their own net neutrality protections following the repeal of the federal rules.
Legal scholars who have studied the provision and Mr. Neal's request believe that if the Treasury Department does object, it will argue that the Ways and Means chairman has overstepped Congress's oversight authority by making a request that lacks a legitimate legislative purpose and is meant only to achieve a political end.
Trump's decision to use these high-powered, yet controversial, attorneys on his team foreshadows a defense based on the belief that Trump's conduct was well within his authority as chief executive of the U.S. government, and that the House grossly overstepped by charging the president with abusing his power and obstructing Congress.
Lawyers for House Speaker Mike Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati argued that the state's high court overstepped its authority in setting a deadline for lawmakers to draw new maps -- and then, when the GOP-led Legislature missed that deadline, producing new maps drawn by an expert selected by the court.
" Naeem Khalid Lodhi, a retired lieutenant general who has served as defense secretary and a corps commander, said of the departing army chief, "He leaves a legacy of clear thinking, rapid decision making, and in spite of his tremendous popularity in the public, he stuck to his mandate and never overstepped his limits.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled last year that a lower court had correctly barred claims that the government overstepped its authority in 2012 by eliminating dividend payouts to various shareholders and requiring the companies to pay the U.S. Treasury an amount equal to their quarterly net worth.
DeVos has 300 days "to review and, if necessary, modify and repeal regulations and guidance issued by the Department of Education with a clear mandate to identify places where D.C. has overstepped its legal authority," said Rob Goad, a Department of Education official, according to a transcript of a White House call with reporters.
Mr. Manafort was convicted on charges including tax and bank fraud at his trial in federal court in Alexandria, Va. Since he was charged, Mr. Manafort has maintained his innocence and has sued the Justice Department, claiming that Mr. Mueller overstepped his authority as special counsel by bringing charges unrelated to Russian election interference.
The fact that Pompeo — an ardent defender of Trump in all things — didn't find anything amiss with the CIA's work or its conclusions about Russia's motives in 2016 is quite significant, as it further repudiates the suspicions of some House Republican lawmakers and Barr himself (not to mention President Trump) that the intelligence community overstepped or acted improperly.
By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said a lower court had correctly barred claims that the government overstepped its authority in 2012 by eliminating dividend payouts to various shareholders and requiring the companies to pay an amount equal to their quarterly net worth to the U.S. Treasury.
By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said a lower court had correctly barred claims that the government overstepped its authority in 2012 by eliminating dividend payouts to various shareholders and requiring the companies to pay the U.S. Treasury an amount equal to their quarterly net worth.
They're pointing to recent comments urging Democrats to have "some patience" with President Trump and remarks she made last month suggesting that former President Obama may have overstepped his legal authority in creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — an argument Trump made in dismantling DACA, and one most Democrats have rejected out of hand.
Trump has pushed to shrink the Education Department's footprint via an executive order targeted at instances "where the Federal Government has unlawfully overstepped state and local control," proposed more than $9 billion in cuts to the education budget, tempered Obama regulations targeting for-profit universities, and rescinded Obama's civil rights directive stipulating expansive accommodations for transgender students.
A new attorney general who is not recused from the Trump-Russia investigation would take over from Mr. Rosenstein as the overseer of the special counsel investigation and could fire Mr. Mueller — either by declaring that Mr. Mueller has overstepped in some way, or by first modifying Justice Department regulations to eliminate the rule protecting special counsels.
The United States Telecom Association is suing the Federal Communications Commission over network neutrality, and this week, on behalf of the country's telecom companies, the organization unveiled its case against the commission, arguing the FCC overstepped its authority in reclassifying mobile and fixed line internet service providers as traditional telecommunications providers—a move widely hailed as a victory for network neutrality.
After passing its landmark policy, which banned construction of new, large-scale fossil fuel facilities in the city, Portland was hit by a legal challenge from petroleum trade groups and a local business coalition The groups argued the city had overstepped its constitutional bounds by effectively blocking interstate commerce, an argument the state land use court upheld in July 2017.
Former 49ers CEO and president Carmen Policy went on the Bay Area sports radio show 95.7 The Game to talk about the Garoppolo conundrum, and perhaps overstepped his bounds a bit: Ah yes, nothing says understanding a team from a city known for its LGBTQ friendliness like comparing a situation in which you have essentially no leverage to the unpleasantness of anal sex.
Trump's motive for firing Comey does matter, because there is a world of difference between firing Comey for the reasons outlined in the Rosenstein memo—that Comey overstepped his role by announcing that Clinton wouldn't be prosecuted while also rebuking her—or doing so to quash the FBI investigation into Russia's interference in the election and potential ties to the Trump campaign.
A source told Axios last month that Flood believes that special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE has overstepped the intended scope of his investigation, similar to how Flood believes investigations against former President Clinton, whom he also represented, were handled.
The department has overstepped this authority by crafting "improperly-issued guidance" and "ill-conceived policies" in the form of Dear Colleague letters to colleges and universities, Lankford charges in the six-page letter that will be sent Thursday to the agency's new secretary, John B. King Jr. "The Dear Colleague letters advance substantive and biding regulatory policies that are effectively regulations," Lankford writes.
A federal appeals court panel indicated Thursday that it was not sympathetic to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's defense in what is known as the Deflategate case, perhaps signaling that it will overturn the district court's ruling against the N.F.L. The hearing was ostensibly about whether N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell overstepped his bounds as arbitrator in Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension.
The 11-page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two-tiered system: $0003,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $150,000 for all others.
Democrats say Trump overstepped his bounds by pressuring Kyiv to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats seek leverage for trial Democrats spend big to put Senate in play MORE on unfounded corruption allegations and disproven claims that Ukraine was involved in 85033 election meddling.
The 434-page report, "Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation," which comes from the DOJ's largely independent accountability office, contradicts the president and his Republican backers who claimed the report would find that the FBI overstepped its bounds when it opened an investigation in 2016 into whether Trump's campaign staff members were working with Russians.
So if it all becomes too much, if I sense I may have overstepped the mark (as measured by glares from my partner), if I feel it's getting to the point where I'll never be invited back, denounced as a Nazi and sent home without even so much as a parcel of turkey scraps for sandwiches later, then I have one remaining trick up my sleeve.
The Texas lawsuit, filed by Mr. Paxton on behalf of officials in 13 states, argued that the Obama administration had overstepped its authority in a series of pronouncements in recent years holding that discrimination against transgender people is a violation of existing laws against sex discrimination, including Title IX in federal education laws and Title VII in federal civil rights laws governing the workplace.
The court decision "affirms the fact that unelected bureaucrats at the F.C.C. completely overstepped their authority by attempting to deny states like North Carolina from setting their own laws to protect hardworking taxpayers and maintain the fairness of the free market," Thom Tillis, a Republican United States senator who pushed through the 2011 bill when he was North Carolina's House speaker, said in a statement.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by former Trump campaign chairman Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE claiming that the department overstepped its authority by appointing the special counsel who indicted him on conspiracy charges.
But Some Things Do. It's Not Just Fox: Why Women Don't Report Sexual Harassment How to Stop the Predators Who Aren't Famous Men at Work Wonder if They Overstepped With Women, Too Stepping Up to Stop Sexual Assault _________ As your students finish their final projects, encourage them to return to some key questions we posed at the beginning of this unit: • How does sexual harassment affect individuals and society?
Bercow, especially to those less enthusiastic about Brexit, was very much the safeguard, advocating for Parliament and giving MPs the power to challenge the government, especially when it came to attempts to prevent a no-deal exit from the EU. This has turned Bercow into the enemy of Brexiteers, who see him as having overstepped his job and joined forces with the rest of Parliament to foil Brexit.
U.S. District Judge Mark WalkerBradley (Mark) Mark WalkerOn The Money: House passes sweeping budget, debt limit deal | Dem court filing defends powers to get Trump's NY tax returns | Debt collectors to pay M to settle consumer bureau charges House passes sweeping budget, debt limit deal Romney to vote against budget deal: Agreement 'perpetuates fiscal recklessness' MORE handed down a ruling in that case last week, saying that Scott had overstepped his authority in suspending Snipes.
But for the same reason Republicans were outraged when President Obama overstepped his constitutional powers, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's border wall-themed declaration of a national emergency violates both the spirit and letter of America's time-honored separation of powers.
Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said Sunday that he believes CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta has gone "way over the line" in some of his questions to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, but that the White House overstepped by revoking his press pass.
Pai, who was appointed to the agency by former President Obama but elevated to the top role under President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, praised the vote to repeal the rules Thursday, arguing that the FCC overstepped when it originally enacted the net neutrality protections.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.), have overstepped in adopting aggressive proposals to rein in corporate power.
Trump's attorneys also argued In a separate letter obtained by CNN that an accounting firm that once prepared several years' worth of the President's financial statements should not comply with a subpoena the House Oversight Committee says it will issue, In the letter, Trump's lawyers, Consovoy and Stefan Passantino, argue that Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings has overstepped his congressional authority, that his reasons for wanting the information are not valid and that they will pursue legal action if Mazars, the accounting firm, plans to comply with Cummings' expected subpoena.
Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 21625 Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown MORE (D-Mont.) overstepped in his opposition to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's pick for secretary of Veterans Affairs and that it could breathe new life into his Montana Senate race.
The investigation, which is widely expected to advance to the Senate, has sharply divided Congress — Democrats say Trump overstepped by allegedly leveraging nearly $400 million in military aid and a White House meeting with the Ukrainian president for the probe into political rival and former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump rallies supporters as he becomes third president to be impeached On The Trail: A historic vote that defines legacies MORE, while Republicans claim that Trump did nothing wrong and was seeking to ensure that taxpayer dollars did not fund corruption in a country with a reputation for government misconduct.  Rep.

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