These proposed regulations follow a series of other attacks on the ESA and wildlife by the second Trump administration.

“Most people are not going to allow the sacrifice of our natural world to a bunch of billionaires and corporate interests,” said Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles.

We always want more salmon!!

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any
other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only
if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival.
Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." -- Sotomayor dissent

This is death by procedure, requiring each individual plaintiff over whom Trump attempts remove in accordance with this EO to file their own case & get their own injunction against the govt or file a class action lawsuit. And the Court hates class actions and regularly strikes them down.

If the law allows some people to act unjustly/immorally towards others with impunity—as it always has—it isn’t serving justice. Decades of slow progress to change that have caused many to conflate “the law” with “justice.” But we should be awake now to the fact that the law itself is not justice.

Who thinks that selling off federal public lands--a heritage shared by present and future generations of Americans--is a really good idea despite that idea being wildly unpopular in the U.S. West?

@mattyglesias.bsky.social, that's who.