The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports an interesting AP story from Washington state, “A good fence makes … trouble,” about property owners whose fence on their own property has been threatened by an obscure federal agency:
Herbert and Shirley-Ann Leu were thinking landscaping, not politics,when they built an 85-foot-long concrete wall in their back yard.
But their yard happens to run along the U.S.-Canadian border — asituation that has put the Leus in the middle of a property rightsbattle, led the Bush administration to fire its own handpicked bordercaretaker and given rise to a legal dispute over the extent ofpresidential authority.
Full story. The property owners are being represented by my Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues, whose take on the case is posted here.