November 27, 2018 By Gary M. Galles
While most eyes were on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination battle, the Supreme Court opened its term by hearing Weyerhaeuser v. Fish and Wildlife Services, a property rights case with substantial implications for Americans.
The case is an appeal of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling for the government involving about a hundred remaining dusky gopher frogs in Mississippi. The Fish and Wildlife Service designated 1,500 acres of privately-owned land in Louisiana as critical habitat for the frog. But the frogs have not lived in Louisiana for 50 years. The location’s loblolly pines would need to be removed and replaced with longleaf pines, which require periodic burning. Yet Fish and Wildlife has decided that forcing the owner to forgo other profitable opportunities and adapt his land for the frog is “reasonable” without even conducting an environmental impact study.
The case focuses on the “reasonableness” of designating as “critical habitat” private land which is not currently suitable for the frogs but could be made so at some cost. (Essentially most ownership rights would be transferred to the frogs.) Justice Samuel Alito captured the issue well when he said, “The question is who is going to have to pay and who should pay for the preservation of this public good.”............ To Read More
My Take - Another federal agency that needs to be seriously rolled back or even better yet - eliminated! This agency, along with the EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies have done more to undermine Constitution rights than any reasonable person can find acceptable.
Their actions, ignored by the Congress, promoted by almost every administration since 1960, heralded by a corrupt media, and enforced by a corrupt federal judiciary, clearly is a treasonous effort to destroy the Constitution by the leftists who've infested the federal government for over 100 years.
Why is that so hard to grasp?
Because it's was done slowly, and promoted to the public as being done to save the planet, and a large number of those involved are true believers failing to grasp the very real danger these agencies represent.
While most eyes were on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination battle, the Supreme Court opened its term by hearing Weyerhaeuser v. Fish and Wildlife Services, a property rights case with substantial implications for Americans.
The case is an appeal of a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling for the government involving about a hundred remaining dusky gopher frogs in Mississippi. The Fish and Wildlife Service designated 1,500 acres of privately-owned land in Louisiana as critical habitat for the frog. But the frogs have not lived in Louisiana for 50 years. The location’s loblolly pines would need to be removed and replaced with longleaf pines, which require periodic burning. Yet Fish and Wildlife has decided that forcing the owner to forgo other profitable opportunities and adapt his land for the frog is “reasonable” without even conducting an environmental impact study.
The case focuses on the “reasonableness” of designating as “critical habitat” private land which is not currently suitable for the frogs but could be made so at some cost. (Essentially most ownership rights would be transferred to the frogs.) Justice Samuel Alito captured the issue well when he said, “The question is who is going to have to pay and who should pay for the preservation of this public good.”............ To Read More
My Take - Another federal agency that needs to be seriously rolled back or even better yet - eliminated! This agency, along with the EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies have done more to undermine Constitution rights than any reasonable person can find acceptable.
Their actions, ignored by the Congress, promoted by almost every administration since 1960, heralded by a corrupt media, and enforced by a corrupt federal judiciary, clearly is a treasonous effort to destroy the Constitution by the leftists who've infested the federal government for over 100 years.
Why is that so hard to grasp?
Because it's was done slowly, and promoted to the public as being done to save the planet, and a large number of those involved are true believers failing to grasp the very real danger these agencies represent.
