I'm not English Pete, if'n that's what you're getting at...

A couple of quick comments that can be read in the context of this topic:

1. 95% of those who bitch about the Boldt Decision have never read it.

Here it is: The Boldt Decision

2. 95% of those who bitch about "liberal agenda" and "activist judges" are usually the first ones to run into court and cry when anything...anything...they don't like is happening to them...and fully expect some activism at that point. How many of the RWWJ's complained when the Supreme Court found an individual right to bear arms in the 2nd Amendment, a finding that clearly has zero support in the plain text of the Bill of Rights?

3. Agree with it or not, the Boldt Decision is a landmark piece of jurisprudence that went up and down the legal ladder repeatedly and was roundly supported by judges and banks of judges from all ends of the political spectrum.

4. If you don't like the Boldt Decision (I don't), don't blame it on activist judges, or the people of the State of Washington (though rednecks on the Nisqually and Puyallup Rivers were the first instigators that brought it into play)...look at the one man most responsible for it...Sen. Slade Gorton...not a liberal by any means.

Fish on...

Todd