Commentary: Washington is trying to exempt the delta tunnels from court review
A congressman set off a legislative bomb in California's water wars last week.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Corona) inserted a rider into an Interior Department appropriations bill that would exempt from all judicial review the intensely contested Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta twin tunnels project. Passage of the rider - it's scheduled for a House committee vote Tuesday - would mean that the water diversion scheme wouldn't have to follow federal or state law.
The project,
