Climate Activism Coming to a Courtroom Near You
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/climate-activism-coming-to-a-courtroom-near-you/Climate indoctrination has taken root in unlikely soil: your local courtroom.
A recent initiative by the Environmental Law Institute, the Climate Judiciary Project (CJP), has sought to shape the opinion of justices across the nation on topics of climate and the law. Over 2,000 judges have been reached via the seminars, conferences, and programming of CJP, “is a first-of-its-kind effort that provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.”
Perhaps the biggest problem with CJP is its claim to neutrality and objectivity. I’ve read through heaps of CJP materials, and there is no denying that they view environmentalist plaintiffs as the good guys and fossil-fuel companies as the big, mean, bad guys. They have received millions in funding from Left-leaning foundations, including the JPB Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation — the same entities who are funding the climate lawsuits in the first place.
The U.S. Judicial Conference has warned judges of seminars where they may be “influenced inappropriately.” The Conference describes such influence as that which “may be exerted through program content, contact between judges and those who litigate before them, and prerequisites provided to program attendees.”
Climate activism in the courts. Courts is for law, not activism.
