Standing for trees to sue

Critics of Obama science czar (and sometime Paul Ehrlich-ite) John Holdren are noting that way back in the 1970s he had favorable words for law professor Christopher Stone’s notion of extending to trees and other natural objects a right to sue, a concept endorsed by none other than Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. This prompts a poetic flight from one of Jonah Goldberg’s readers at National Review Online:

I think that I shall always rue
The day a tree got rights to sue.

A tree whose hungry lawyer’s plea
Is filed on a contingency…

3 Comments

  • I guess they would hire this man to be their lawyer!

  • How will the tree feel about all the trees felled to supply the paper for all the briefs?

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