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Jun. 1, 2014
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"To preserve the vitally important principle of judicial independence, we are not politically accountable. However, because of our lack of public accountability, our job is constitutionally confined to interpreting laws, not creating them out of whole cloth."
- Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. dissenting in Karuk Tribe of California v. U.S. Forest Service (681 F.3d 1006, 1041 (9th Cir. 2012)). Smith argued that, under the federal Endangered Species Act (1...
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