A new special master assigned to the fight between Georgia and Florida over water rights once compared the Endangered Species Act to Frankenstein, a monster giving the federal government too much power.

The remark by Senior Judge Paul Kelly Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit came in a 2003 dissent to a decision protecting endangered fish from reduced water flows in New Mexico.

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