The Nonhuman Rights Project has taken its traveling show to Colorado, where it has filed a habeas corpus petition, supposedly on behalf of elephants kept by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society. The petition is highly similar to the earlier petitions, so I won’t review it in any detail. What a great country! Instead of advocating for better treatment for elephants in zoos, or even advocating for a law forbidding zoos to keep elephants, you can travel around the country and force zoos and others to spend money to hire lawyers to fight your pet theory that elephants are persons. You can lose and lose and lose, and until you run out of states, you can just keep on keeping on. And who knows? It’s a big country, and I tend to think that at some point the NhRP will find a judge who agrees with them! You can read my prior coverage to get a sense of why I think all this is absurd.
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