aggrandizement

“I am loath to bless this aggrandizement of judicial power where Congress has so plainly limited the discretion of the courts, and where it so clearly intends for the expert agency it has created to make the primary determinations about both merits and process,” she wrote.

Ego and corrupt special interests motivated some presidents, but the best put aside personal aggrandizement and plutocratic backers to strive for the common good in a diverse and dynamic nation.

When it’s literal deaths—like victims of gun violence or abortion bans—or a massive aggrandizement of judicial power—like subjecting every federal regulation or gun law to close scrutiny—well, if history demands it, so be it.

Russia planted both its feet on the wrong side of history, morally speaking, by launching a brutal and unprovoked 19th century–style imperial war of territorial aggrandizement against a much smaller and weaker democratizing neighbor.

“But the answer to these problems is not the unchecked aggrandizement of executive power.”