Federal laws are now enforced at whim by the likes of Holder. Manipulated at will by the likes of Reid and sons and cronies, to create federally managed lands, said land issues are imbued with environment green groups for one fetish or another. When tied to water/grazing/mineral rights, merged, auctioned off with funds kicked back to the likes of Reid—repackaged to sell off sovereign American rights to the Communist Chinese, federal appeals and rules are colored by whoever’s hands want the ‘right’ decision.
Of course the federal courts will rule as told. That’s why judges are shopped. It’s also why federal courts are only occasionally just. Justice now is a play for the imperial DC court jesters.
The feds rule as they want in ways that aggrandize federal power. Of course, they do. Laws are rules, which many times fade from view against what Justice is.
Actually, some courts do get it right. In this case, Hage lost on his “no such thing as federal land” stance, but the BLM behavior “shocked the conscience of the court” by creating a fight for no reason.
““In the present case, the Government’s actions over the past two decades shocks the conscience of the Court, and the burden on the Government of taking a few minutes to realize that the reference to the UCC on the Estate’s application was nonsensical and would not affect the terms of the permit was minuscule compared to the private interest affected. ..Based upon E. Wayne Hage’s declaration that he refused to waive his rights—a declaration that did not purport to change the substance of the grazing permit renewal for which he was applying, and which had no plausible legal effect other than to superfluously assert non-waiver of rights—the Government denied him a renewal grazing permit based upon its frankly nonsensical position that such an assertion of rights meant that the application had not been properly completed.”