[lawdog]

"We could have avoided this suit if he had just avoided the wetlands area."

Here's the crux of it ding dong. Is it his land or not ? Where is the Constitutional power granted to the Army Corps of Engineers defined ? Article 1, 2 or 3 or ?

[gov_bean_ counter]

I doubt very seriously he did the plowing during the winter, when the area was wet. Where I grew up in LA (Lower Alabama) a weeks worth of rain would be enough to keep tractors out of the fields.

Given that, I think some of this is driven by a liberal definition of "wetlands" based on the current Chief of Engineers' over the top devotion to "the environment".

[FreedomCalls]

Remember the debate from late in the Clinton administration? They claimed that the Feds had jurisdiction over any puddle of water that a migratory bird could possibly land in. They included mud puddles formed after rainstorms as "wetlands."

[FreedomCalls]

Remember the debate from late in the Clinton administration? They claimed that the Feds had jurisdiction over any puddle of water that a migratory bird could possibly land in. They included mud puddles formed after rainstorms as "wetlands."