The Christian Science Monitor reports on a case that illustrates everything wrong with dictatorship by judges. “This week, on the eve of Yellowstone National Park opening its gates to winter visitors, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a controversial order that has left many in the park gateway community stunned.”
“The whole thing is a political nightmare, and we’re caught in the middle of it,” says [Jerry] Schmier, standing next to a fleet of cleaner and quieter snow machines he bought to keep his 30-year-old tourist business afloat, a fleet the federal government encouraged him to buy. “If this ban holds up, it’s going to be devastating.”
A vacationer tells the New York Times: “I think it stinks. It’s bad for business, it’s bad for tourists, and it borders on being unethical.”
See Yellowstone’s site and Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s bio.
Finally, the decision itself.
