{"id":6028,"date":"2023-10-04T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2023-10-04T04:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T04:59:37","slug":"tammy-baldwin-endangers-wisconsin-gray-wolf-hunt-with-poison-pill-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6028","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Baldwin Endangers Wisconsin Gray Wolf Hunt With \u2018Poison Pill\u2019 Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/tammy-baldwin-gray-wolf\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is a classic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin move: Wisconsin\u2019s Senator \u201cDo Nothing\u201d takes a public relations position that makes it sound like she\u2019s for a moderate position that Wisconsinites care about, and then makes sure the bill has a quiet poison pill that ensures it won\u2019t happen. That\u2019s exactly what she\u2019s done with delisting the Wisconsin gray wolf from the endangered species list.<\/p>\n

Baldwin proposed a bill that makes it sound like she is for delisting the gray wolf. However, her version does not contain a ban on judicial review<\/strong>, such as that favored by Republican Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany.<\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Baldwin\u2019s bill has a couple of weaknesses,\u201d Tiffany said. \u201cFor instance, it does not cover the entire United States, and it also does not protect the delisting from judicial activism. There\u2019s a better alternative \u2013 the Trust the Science Act \u2013 that I introduced alongside Rep. Boebert to delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 and ensure that action is not subject to judicial review. I encourage Senator Baldwin to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In practical reality, allowing judicial review means a judge, say in California, is likely to just invalidate the whole gray wolf hunt. Baldwin surely knows this. Her bill allows this. The reason can likely be found in the pressure she has gotten on the wolves from left-wing environmental activists and Native American tribes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will note that without text to prevent the rule from judicial review, we will end up in the same position we are currently in where activist judges can unilaterally relist the gray wolf. This leaves rural communities bouncing back & forth between federal listings and de-listings. Wolf management belongs in states\u2019 hands,\u201d Tiffany\u2019s spokeswoman told Wisconsin Right Now.<\/p>\n

This matters to Wisconsin farmers \u2013 a lot \u2013 because they\u2019re losing livestock and dogs to the wolves.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the wolves sometimes attack pets and livestock. See the list of wolf depredations in Wisconsin for 2013 here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we unpack, and expose, how Tammy Baldwin is actually endangering Wisconsin\u2019s gray wolf hunt while pretending to be for it.<\/p>\n

Tom Tiffany\u2019s Gray Wolf Bill<\/h2>\n

Tiffany and Representative Lauren Boebert, also a Republican, introduced the <\/a>\u201cTrust the Science Act.\u201d It passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee on a party-line vote and is now waiting to be brought to the House floor, his office tells us.<\/p>\n

It ensures that gray wolves are delisted in the lower 48 United States. According to their press release, the bill would require following \u201cthe scientific recommendation of wildlife experts that the gray wolf should be removed from the Endangered Species List and that gray wolf populations should be managed by states instead of one-size-fits-all federal government regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill also includes a specific section ensuring that the reissuance of the final rule will not be subject to judicial review by activist judges, like the California judge, who vacated the rule in 2020 and unilaterally relisted the gray wolf by judicial fiat,\u201d Tiffany\u2019s office explained to Wisconsin Right Now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a scientific fact that the gray wolf has recovered well past its recovery goal. Saying otherwise undermines the purpose of the Endangered Species Act. This is a true recovery success story, and it\u2019s past time to give states the reins to control their wolf populations,\u201d Tiffany said in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongressman Tiffany also filed an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that ensures the reissuance of the final rule on the gray wolf shall not be subject to judicial review,\u201d Tiffany\u2019s spokeswoman told us.<\/p>\n

Text: <\/strong>SEC. 3. \u201cNO JUDICIAL REVIEW. Reissuance of the final rule under section 2 shall not be subject to judicial review.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tammy Baldwin\u2019s Poison Pill Gray Wolf Bill<\/h2>\n

Baldwin introduced a competing bill<\/a> called the \u201cNorthern Great Lakes Wolf Recovery Act.\u201d No further action has been taken on the bill, which would only delist the gray wolf population in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula.<\/p>\n

Notably, though, the text does not prevent <\/a>the final rule from going through judicial review.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) reintroduced legislation that would not allow judicial review of the gray wolf delisting. But Baldwin, who was listed on it last time, is not on it anymore.<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead, she introduced her own bill, the \u201cNorthern Great Lakes Wolf Recovery Act\u201d without any text preventing judicial review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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