One more case for Sam Waterston: defending endangered whales 

I am writing today not about my departure from “Law & Order,” but about something far more significant — the threatened extinction of a rare and precious animal.

This is an open-and-shut case. North Atlantic right whales are on the verge of disappearing. We know what’s killing them, and we know how to stop it, but our government is doing nothing.  

Their slow swimming and tendency to remain near the surface made them the “right” whale to kill, their very name an ominous foreshadowing of their fate.