There is a curious alliance in the fight to reign in ever-expanding federal criminal statutes. The vagueness of some federal laws and their perceived overuse are also under attack. Groups with traditionally divergent interests, like the Heritage Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, have joined together to address the suggestion of over-criminalization.
Conservative Edwin Meese, a tough law-and-order attorney general under President Reagan, told the New York Times, “the liberal ideas of expanding power of the state” are to blame for an out-of-control criminal justice system.
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