You know you are wrong when it is a 9-0 decision. How did the lower courts get it wrong?
So long Sierra Club pukes. May you ever rot.
“In a unanimous ruling the justices rejected the federal government’s attempt to designate roughly 1,500 acres in Louisiana as critical space for the dusky gopher frog.”
It continues to incense me that the Trump Administration, almost half-way through it’s first term, has not succeeded in weeding out the Obola holdovers. It is an embarassment that they have not stopped this stuff from continuing. Either he’s the President over every department, or he’s going to be a failure in the eyes of the voters in 2020.
Ping!
” But the government, fearing future events might push the frog back, sought to designate the land, which would have imposed severe restrictions on what the owners could do with it.”
What I want to know is who, with great specificity, are the government officials responsible for this nonsense. It’s not o.k. to just call it “the government” and let the bad actors get away with continuing to pull this crap.
An unanimous opinion. Even RBG wasn’t buying the Government’s cock and bull story.
Let's Wrap This FReepathon Up, Folks!
“dusky gopher frog”....yum
Biology prof's would send students on field trips to 'find' an 'endangered species' on every plot they walked.
The result was not only the bastardization of the term "species", but the LIE that they were somehow unique to that particular area.
The objective was to have a catalog of as much area as possible to be able to object to any proposed development, anywhere, anytime.
Who would ever be equipped to prove them wrong?
It took 25 years to prove the Preble's mouse was not unique or endangered, yet they remain protected.
Related stuff the SCOTUS should examine:
1) When a tiny minority of a non-threatened species lives elsewhere, in a less hospitable environment for it, should not qualify it as endangered.
2) When a species is endangered, it does *not* mean it is endangered by humans or human activity. In such cases, captive breeding-for-release is far preferable to placing a hostile environment for the species off limits to humans, thus helping to insure the endangered species dies off.
3) Temporary natural or artificial changes do not require that such changes be maintained by people. For example, a strong rain or a busted water pipe that leaves a big puddle does not legally convert that ground into a “wetland”.
4) There needs to be an “overriding federal imperative” for the POTUS to declare or keep federally protected lands. The individual states should maintain the right to declare such lands as “common” and not deserving of federal control or protection, so by court order they can be returned to the states.
Is there *any* rationale that explains why the federal government needs to control *this much* land?
https://i.imgur.com/YU6Wq3f.jpg
It should not be in their domain or control. Give it back.
Yeah but we just have to save the dusky gopher frog?
What a croc.
I’m amazed this was a unanimous decision.
I haven’t read the full opinion, but from skimming it SCOTUS seems to have ruled that decisions of the Secretary of the Interior are subject to judicial review. The lower federal courts had ruled they could not interfere with the Secretary’s decision whether to grant an exemption to a landowner when the Fish and Wildlife Service designate a species as being endangered. The decision below was vacated and the case was remanded for a review as to whether the Secretary abuse his discretion in denying the exemption.
There are a gazillion frogs in LA.
The problem is not “critical space,” but not enough frog giggers.
5.56mm
Ah, but the NEXT move will be to designate land as habitat if an endangered species is on the same planet as that land.
NEXT LAWSUIT.
“the mere prospect that the species might eventually move there”
The best way to deal with an endangered species is to make it extinct.
