Climate kooks try to influence the courts

American Action News:

The Supreme Court is poised to step in and put a spotlight on one of the Left’s most potent legal weapons. How do we know? Look no further than the collective panic and wave of articles the Left and their allies are planting in an effort to fan a new, baseless influence-peddling narrative.

The justices yesterday met for the first time over whether to hear an appeal out of Hawaii from energy companies fighting off two dozen climate-change lawsuits from liberal cities and states. The plaintiffs are seeking billions of dollars out of these public nuisance cases, money they will use to force fundamental changes to what we can buy and how we consume energy–an EV in every garage, and gas stoves over the cliff, as it were.

The Left has been pushing these public nuisance lawsuits for years against all sorts of disfavored products and industries—from plastics to guns to cars to energy producers—through a coordinated campaign involving public officials, trial lawyers, and advocacy groups, all backed by massive sums of liberal dark money.

And that isn’t all.

Recent news articles speak to how leftwing nonprofits have spent years and many millions of dollars to wine, dine and indoctrinate the judges in whose courts they intend to bring these public nuisance cases.

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and its Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) are the key players in what you might call “The Judge Scheme.” CJP has propagandized thousands of state and federal judges over dozens of events in recent years. These events–there have been over 40 in the last five years according to a January expose–feature presentations from expert witnesses and nonprofit groups meant to condition judges to arguments favorable to the Left’s positions. CJP has also crafted curriculum modules to buttress their closed-door programming.

Honolulu’s climate-nuisance lawsuit is a case in point for “The Judge Scheme.” The Hawaii Supreme Court greenlit Honolulu’s case late last year, prompting energy companies to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. And we now know—thanks to The Daily Caller News Foundation breaking the news—that Hawaii chief justice Mark Recktenwald has collaborated extensively with ELI, attending ELI events and delivering three presentations on climate-law issues.

So, what is the Left to do now that the Supreme Court is poised to take up the Honolulu case and step in on this massive coordinated public nuisance effort to impose leftwing policies on a nationwide basis through the courtroom?

Seems like the answer is: plant news articles accusing anyone who points out their rotten scheme or calls for Supreme Court review of being part of an “unprecedented influence campaign” on the part of the conservative legal movement.
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Big Green is not realistic when it comes to energy.  We already know that alternative energy is expensive and not reliable.  Their push for EVs is being resisted by a huge majority of Americans.  It would be especially harmful to many Americans. 

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