She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority. " That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.
When the court that handpicked you to be president tells you you've overstepped your bounds, you've overstepped your bounds.