Posted on 03/27/2019 8:44:13 AM PDT by SMGFan
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The National Park Service improperly banned an Alaska moose hunter from using a hovercraft on a river through a national preserve, the US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a unanimous decision.
The court limited the National Park Service’s authority to enforce laws and regulations on state-owned rivers in Alaska. Justices rejected the agency’s argument that the river was “public land” for regulatory authority and that the agency’s water rights interest gave it rule-making authority.
The outcome was a victory for moose hunter John Sturgeon of Anchorage, who had sued and lost in lower court rulings.
“We reverse the decision below and wish Sturgeon good hunting,” Justice Elena Kagan said in reading a summary of the decision.
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Hard to hunt a moose with conventional watercraft because moose, you know, spend quite a bit of their time on land.
The International Olympic Committee should consider adding hunting moose with hovercraft as an Olympic sport. I’m sure it would make the Olympics more interesting.
I think the idea with either snowmobile, hovercraft or boat is to get to where the moose are, not to hunt from.
I believe 10 miles on foot is close to average to bag a mouse in Alaska.
Finally, the SC is getting down to the really important constitutional issues of the day.
The SC has ruled that waterhoverboarding a moose is not “cruel and unusual”.
Well, mice are pretty fast but I had no idea they had that much stamina.
Typical government overreach. Yes. Great victory for sane Americans.
Using it to get to hunting grounds.... it was government overreach at its worst.
If I read this right, the state has rightly asserted its sovereignty and the supreme court correctly told the federal government to go take a hike. This is a big deal.
In numerous cases, the USSC has correctly ruled that states, counties and indian tribes are sovereigns, and the fed government cannot mitigate or overrule that sovereignty. This concept is rooted in our ancient common law rights.
The concept of state and county sovereignty has been used many times to successfully push back against the federal government. Conservatives ought to learn about state and county sovereignty and use it.
One should NEVER, EVER, EVER, be able to hunt and shoot from an aircraft...NEVER.
We should have had Dick Cheney show her.
It’s legal on wild pigs in . . . . TEXAS
Nice catch!
But it does not seem to apply to defining marriage.
Has sovereignty ever been used to define marriage? I don’t know. Do you?
Saw Mr. Sturgeon saturday night and congratulated him.
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