On the same day (Friday, August 31) that a federal trial Judge effectively found the Sacramento Delta smelt more important legally than humans (see Post below), the usually Left-leaning Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals surprisingly went the other way, finding that humans' national security actually trumps another species. The San Francisco Chronicle this past Saturday, September 1, 2007, reported:
A federal appeals court allowed the Navy on Friday to resume using underwater sonar blasts in anti-submarine warfare tests off Southern California despite possible harm to endangered whales, saying the nation's military needs come first.
"The safety of the whales must be weighed, and so must the safety of our warriors. And of our country," said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
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"We are currently engaged in war, in two countries," said Judge Andrew Kleinfeld in the majority opinion, joined by Judge Consuelo Callahan. "There are no guarantees extending from 2007 to 2009 or at any other time against other countries deciding to engage us, or our determining that it is necessary to engage other countries.
"We customarily give considerable deference to the executive branch's judgment regarding foreign policy and national defense," the court said.
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