Posted on 08/05/2010 4:37:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho, saying the government made a political decision in removing the protections from just two of the three states where Rocky Mountain wolves roam....
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Some people believe that animals have more rights than you and I do.
...drip, drip, drip.......>CWII
What ARE the wishes of the public?
Were their ballot initiatives in those states?
Or was it votes of political “representatives”?
Looks like my babester. : )
Some people say we have the rule of law. That’s a lie. We have the rule of judges. And they’ve declared themselves our masters.
Every decision the Executive branch makes is a political decision as everyone who makes decisions in the Executive Branch are POLITICAL appointees. That's just the way our government works - the Executive and his appointees SET POLICY, and the career civil-servants implement those policies.
This judge must have missed that part of the Constitutional law class - there's a lot of that going around in the federal judiciary - maybe it's contagious.
An Idaho Wolf Regulation initiative was proposed as an initiative for the November 4, 2008 ballot in Idaho, but the measure did not qualify for the ballot. The initiative, an initiated state statute, would have required the discontinuance by state agencies of all wolf recovery efforts and the removal by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game of all wolves reintroduced into Idaho from Canada. It would have put the responsibility of removing wolves in the hands of the federal government.
If the initiative had passed, it also would have:
*Required classification and management of wolves as unprotected predatory wildlife
*Compensated for damage on personal property damage by wolves held in captivity or that have escaped from captivity.
*Repealed authority of wolf management from the Governor's office of species conservation
*Rescinded approval of the Idaho wolf conservation and management plan
The Anti-Wolf coalition, a nonprofit grassroots coalition, were the proponents of the initiative. The group's view was that wolves should be removed from Idaho by any means necessary.
The group "Save Our Elk" also supported the measure, with their leader, Tony Mayer saying that they are not approaching the issue from an anti-wolf standpoint like the coalition run by Ron Gillett, but that they are "defending the elk".
There is no branch of government less democratic, less accountable, and more dictatorial than the judiciary. I don’t like Obama and I don’t like Pelosi, but neither of them can bang a gavel and change our lives forever, they at least have to TRY to make a case for what the want to do and then later stand for election. So why is nobody concerned about our overlords on the judiciary?
Something will have to be done about the growing dictatorial impulse of the federal bench. We are being led into slavery by leftists in black robes. How much more can we take?
Where does the judge derive his authority to legislate form the bench?
Here we go again with a robed political crusader who knows nothing about a subject making political decisions.
How about we dismantle state and Federal legislatures, eliminate governors and the office of President and just let the courts run things... since they think they have that power (and apparently we have given it too them).
Did this judge not have anything more pressing or important to deal with than overruling the delisting of a predator?
Oh, you mean like, health care.
I’ve told my brother, who lives in Montana, to do exactly that. Or, shoot and let it lay! If I still lived there, that’s exactly what I would do, just like I used to do with coyotes.
If you’re going to leave it alone after you shoot it, gut-shoot it so it will run for some time before it dies.
Yes, like health care. The congress and president did TRY to make the case, it didn't work so they acted anyway and now they will have to face the voters. When do the voters ever get to weigh in on what a judge decides? Never. I stand behind what I said, the judiciary is the least democratic, most dictatorial of the three branches and the least accountable to boot.
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