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Supreme Court threatened by judicial activism
Reader Note: This editorial is solely the opinion of the OWO Publisher
Relisting of the Gray Wolf for federal protection as an endangered species is a reminder of the vital importance of what president we elect in November, and who will appoint the next Supreme Court Justices. Will the high court follow its sworn duty to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, or will it be an instrument for creating law by the far left?
Too many wolves have been one major factor in severe declines of northern Wisconsin deer numbers.
Too often at all levels, judicial activism ignores existing law, disregards judicial oaths to defend the Constitution and instead seeks to establish from the bench rulings based on personal or political consideration. Judicial activism on the Supreme Court is a potentially lethal threat to the Constitution and your freedoms guaranteed by it.
Relisting of the wolf as endangered came by judicial order of U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C. and ruled that U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removal of the wolf from protection violated the Federal Endangered Species Act. The ruling came after the Humane Society of the United States (USHS), an anti-hunting organization disguised from its very name down, filed a lawsuit against the Great Lakes States of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
Animal protection advocates repeatedly have sued over federal efforts to drop federal protections in both the Great Lakes states and the northern Rockies where the wolf is well established.
Howell rendered her decision despite her own acknowledgement of a stable and growing wolf population in the three Midwest states and despite contrary opinions on relisting from expert wildlife biologists. Wisconsin’s deer numbers in northern Wisconsin will continue their severe decline with an unchecked wolf population. If you hunt Wisconsin’s northern counties, you already know that wolf predation of deer is a major contributor to that decline, with hounds and domestic dogs so often killed by wolves that the Wisconsin DNR routinely issues detailed depredation reports. Twenty-four hounds and three domestic dogs were killed by wolves last year.
“The science clearly shows that wolves are recovered in the Great Lakes region, and we believe the Great Lakes states have clearly demonstrated their ability to effectively manage their wolf populations,” said Fish & Wildlife Service spokesman Gavin Shire after the December, 2014 ruling. “This is a significant step backwards.”
The tracks tell the story in Iron County. A deer runs for its life with a wolf in close pursuit.
A step backwards that will take years from which to recover. That reality works well for the USHS and other activists. “We are pleased that the Court has recognized that the basis for delisting was flawed and would stop wolf recovery in its tracks,” said Jonathan Lovvorn, Senior Vice-President for the Humane Society of the United States.
The next president will nominate as many as five Supreme Court justices to a lifetime appointment on the highest bench in the United States. With the recent death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, the nine-justice court is currently divided evenly with a 4-4 conservative-to-liberal split. Clearly from their own voting records, several of these justices already seated do not follow their oaths to defend the Constitution.
As just one example of the imperative nature of this election, your second amendment right to bear arms is already squarely in the crosshairs of the liberal left, and the liberal press who would define terrorism on American soil as a gun control issue. Donald Trump has publically released a closely scrutinized list of 11 candidates from which he would nominate for the Supreme Court. Each is evaluated as a constitutionalist committed to render rulings from existing law, not to creating law. Trump’s list is not a guarantee of “constitutionalist” nominations post-election. The far left’s history however, is a guarantee of radical nominations.
If Trump does not meet expectations as president, use the gift of the ballot and remove him from office in four years. We can outlast any party’s presidential term. We cannot outlast a radical Supreme Court majority appointed for a lifetime.
That reality should scare the vote right out of you. On November 8, your vote for president is a vote for the Supreme Court. And that is the only vote that matters.