Wesley J. Smith: Animal-rights extremism in the Obama entourage is no joke

Wesley J. Smith writing in The Weekly Standard: “Animal standing has friends in some surprisingly high places–including potentially at the highest levels of the Obama administration. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, ranking Republican member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced he was holding up the confirmation of law professor Cass Sunstein–a close friend of the president rumored to be on the fast track for the Supreme Court–as the White House’s ‘regulations czar.’ The reason: Sunstein explicitly advocates animals’ being granted legal standing. “