I believe this new law, with its expanded definition of what constitutes trafficking, will add hundreds of additional inmates to Idaho’s prisons. Because our prisons are already full and we are storing prisoners in other states, it will also add to the cost of transporting our inmates around the country.
A couple of weeks ago I visited the Arizona/Mexico border at Seabee Arizona. I had been there before, in 2008 and 2013. The purpose of my visit was to see firsthand the circumstances surrounding the wave of illegal immigration flowing north across our southern border. I agree that today it is a wave and that it is out of control. As I write this, Title 42 is expiring, and predictions are that it will get worse.
There was no basis for Roe, and it took our Supreme Court fifty years to reverse itself. But it actually did not fully reverse itself, what it determined was that abortion was not a federal issue. Roe was overturned, but that did not eliminate the practice of abortion, nor make abortion illegal. What it did was to make abortion an issue for the states.
Idaho’s wolf emergency is a state issue. And in this situation, the state of Idaho has both a duty and the authority to protect its people and their property. House Bill 343 lays out the facts, the argument and the authority to do so. And the governor can devise a process, outlined in an executive order, that is dignified and methodical in confronting this emergency.
So my conclusion is that neither Lewis and Clark, nor those who might re-enact their trek through Idaho today need get a permit nor enter into a contract with the state of Idaho if they want to cut down a large and marketable Ponderosa Pine on state land and crave it into a canoe for their own personal use.
The governor of Idaho must agree as he suddenly thinks that Idaho needs a law on the books giving Idaho government officials immunity from their “Covid-19 actions.” He just called a special session of the Legislature in the hopes the Legislature will pass such a bill.
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