On July 21, the state supreme court said unanimously that the state does indeed have a duty to the schools and other beneficiaries, BUT it also has a duty to “all the people.”
Threatened Chinook salmon from the Snake River, Puget Sound, the upper Willamette River, and the lower Columbia all swim north along the coast to Southeast Alaska, where they are caught by Alaskan trollers.
What are the chances of getting enough votes for any sensible reform? And if Congress now or after the mid-terms actually coalesced around changing the Court, should we be encouraged or scared?