Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
Donald J. Kochan | January 08, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear cases with major impacts for the separation of powers and for left-leaning states’ and municipalities’ ability to use their state courts as pawns to establish national climate change policy. To preserve federalism, the stability of the rule of law, and separation of powers in our Republic, it is imperative that the Supreme Court grant certiorari to take the cases.
The climate-change suits percolating across the country, of which these petitions for certiorari are representative, feature an alliance between fee-driven plaintiffs’ attorneys and frustrated environmental activists. They want to get de facto regulation and retroactive liability imposition illegitimately from activist courts that they know would be impossible to get in the sunlight of the democratic process.
Together, these lawyers and activists are seeking to unconstitutionally turn courts into climate policymakers.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/08/supreme-court-send-message-climate-change-lawsuits/