With news that Cliven Bundy and his two sons, Ammon and Ryan, are getting off scot-free for their leading role in a dangerous 2014 armed standoff against public land managers in Nevada, it is now up to Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Interior Department to ensure lawbreakers and tax cheats‚Ää—‚Ääno matter their political leanings‚Ää—‚Ääare held accountable.
The conspiracy and assault trial against the scofflaw ranchers was dismissed this week after the prosecution bungled the case so badly that the judge said she had no choice but to set the the militants free. Now Cliven, Ammon, and Ryan are heading home on a technicality and fully intend to continue illegally grazing their cows on U.S. public lands without paying American taxpayers for the right to do so.