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Courts would be overreaching, and it would shift a court from a judicial role – where it decides a specific dispute – to something more like a legislative role where it decides a question or an issue without a factual dispute between the parties. – Professor Samuel Bray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's no question COVID steeled me to run for office because you better be pretty tough. Rhino skin to be able to deal with the criticism, what really got me going is when I realized the duplicitousness of the process that an authoritarian overreaching government, a top-down approach, which was destined to fail, could be lied about, that you actually could see government conspiring with media and industry to tell stories that just really don't match the reality of what we're facing. – Mehmet Oz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So it is an extraordinary situation, and it's an extreme situation. And it's a situation where my organization has criticized the government for overreaching and for invoking the act, even though we don't feel the situation meets the very high threshold required at law to declare a national emergency. – Laura Berger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The confusion and chaos surrounding Gov. Hochul’s overreaching mask mandate reached an unfortunate peaktoday, i have said that unilateral requirements like the one being forced onto New Yorkers by the Hochul Administration are decisions that should remain at the local level. The Appellate Division has granted a stay of the governor’s order, but it’s time for all of us to move on from mandates, fear and confusion. – Republican Leader Will Barclay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This [ rapid decline ] scares me, it's dropping so fast that it may be overreaching our ability to cope with the problems. I did not anticipate the bottom to drop this quickly, and we're only talking about Lake Mead. – John Fleck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If they refuse, they are subject to being subpoenaed and compelled to testify under oath, this issue should not be partisan; under the Constitution, Congress is a co-equal branch of government and must be protected from an overreaching executive, and we expect that our Republican colleagues will join us in getting to the bottom of this serious matter. – House Democrats only	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our Constitution protects the right of faith-based institutions to operate according to their beliefs. It also protects our freedom by separating power and limiting government, and in this case the government is clearly overreaching. – The ADF	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Liberalism is a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs. Liberalism undermines the spirit of self-help and individual responsibility. For liberals in academia, the fact that black college students earn lower grades and have a higher dropout rate than any group besides reservation Indians means that blacks remain stymied and victimized by white racism. Thus, their push for affirmative action and other race-based programs is to assuage their guilt and shame for America’s past by having people around with black skin color. The heck with the human being inside that skin. – Walter E. Williams	added by Normando 3 years ago
To say we are overreaching flies in the face of facts, history and, most importantly, common sense, in 2017, measles killed 110,000 people worldwide, mostly children under age 5. We have had five cases go to the intensive care unit. Need we wait for someone to die ? – County Executive Ed Day	Found on CNN 5 years ago
( Fox News) What keeps the government from overreaching ? what keeps them from going the next step ? And it really is only another step or two, to a national ID where they know everything about you. One of the very first tenets is no national ID, Grassi said of the work NIST is doing. And the mobile driver's license would be no different. Each individual state will still be in control of driver's license information, as they are now, he said. Diane Johanssen manages the driver's license office in Lakewood, Colorado, which took part in field testing Gemalto's product. Everyone wants it right now and I think that the digital license is the wave of the future, personally and professionally, Diane Johanssen said. Diane Johanssen said one of the biggest advantages to going digital would be the ability to update license information remotely. It would basically keep them out of the office, and for all those people with special needs, that are in nursing homes that have an issue to just get to a driver's license office. – Dan Recht	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To characterize( the administration's position) as extraordinary or overreaching shows a complete misunderstanding of what these agencies do. – Jennifer Levi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I feel this is government overreaching. – Cindy Kirchhofer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is about the use of overreaching deadly force in situations where it is not required. – Eric Bland	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. – George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. – George Will	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Courts would be overreaching, and it would shift a court from a judicial role – where it decides a specific dispute – to something more like a legislative role where it decides a question or an issue without a factual dispute between the parties.

– Professor Samuel Bray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's no question COVID steeled me to run for office because you better be pretty tough. Rhino skin to be able to deal with the criticism, what really got me going is when I realized the duplicitousness of the process that an authoritarian overreaching government, a top-down approach, which was destined to fail, could be lied about, that you actually could see government conspiring with media and industry to tell stories that just really don't match the reality of what we're facing.

– Mehmet Oz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So it is an extraordinary situation, and it's an extreme situation. And it's a situation where my organization has criticized the government for overreaching and for invoking the act, even though we don't feel the situation meets the very high threshold required at law to declare a national emergency.

– Laura Berger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The confusion and chaos surrounding Gov. Hochul’s overreaching mask mandate reached an unfortunate peaktoday, i have said that unilateral requirements like the one being forced onto New Yorkers by the Hochul Administration are decisions that should remain at the local level. The Appellate Division has granted a stay of the governor’s order, but it’s time for all of us to move on from mandates, fear and confusion.

– Republican Leader Will Barclay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This [ rapid decline ] scares me, it's dropping so fast that it may be overreaching our ability to cope with the problems. I did not anticipate the bottom to drop this quickly, and we're only talking about Lake Mead.

– John Fleck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If they refuse, they are subject to being subpoenaed and compelled to testify under oath, this issue should not be partisan; under the Constitution, Congress is a co-equal branch of government and must be protected from an overreaching executive, and we expect that our Republican colleagues will join us in getting to the bottom of this serious matter.

– House Democrats only

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our Constitution protects the right of faith-based institutions to operate according to their beliefs. It also protects our freedom by separating power and limiting government, and in this case the government is clearly overreaching.

– The ADF

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Liberalism is a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs. Liberalism undermines the spirit of self-help and individual responsibility. For liberals in academia, the fact that black college students earn lower grades and have a higher dropout rate than any group besides reservation Indians means that blacks remain stymied and victimized by white racism. Thus, their push for affirmative action and other race-based programs is to assuage their guilt and shame for America’s past by having people around with black skin color. The heck with the human being inside that skin.

– Walter E. Williams

added by Normando
3 years ago

To say we are overreaching flies in the face of facts, history and, most importantly, common sense, in 2017, measles killed 110,000 people worldwide, mostly children under age 5. We have had five cases go to the intensive care unit. Need we wait for someone to die ?

– County Executive Ed Day

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( Fox News) What keeps the government from overreaching ? what keeps them from going the next step ? And it really is only another step or two, to a national ID where they know everything about you. One of the very first tenets is no national ID, Grassi said of the work NIST is doing. And the mobile driver's license would be no different. Each individual state will still be in control of driver's license information, as they are now, he said. Diane Johanssen manages the driver's license office in Lakewood, Colorado, which took part in field testing Gemalto's product. Everyone wants it right now and I think that the digital license is the wave of the future, personally and professionally, Diane Johanssen said. Diane Johanssen said one of the biggest advantages to going digital would be the ability to update license information remotely. It would basically keep them out of the office, and for all those people with special needs, that are in nursing homes that have an issue to just get to a driver's license office.

– Dan Recht

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To characterize( the administration's position) as extraordinary or overreaching shows a complete misunderstanding of what these agencies do.

– Jennifer Levi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I feel this is government overreaching.

– Cindy Kirchhofer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is about the use of overreaching deadly force in situations where it is not required.

– Eric Bland

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

– George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

– George Will

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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