First the Utah Supreme Court decided in June 2024 that they would hear the suit to see if it should be revived. Then in September 2024 they seemed reluctant to revive the suit. And now
Utah Supreme Court rules on teens’ lawsuit over climate change policies
The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit filed by a group of teens against the state arguing its fossil fuel policies contribute to climate change and harm their lives.
In a unanimous ruling, the Court upheld a lower court judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit. However, the justices reversed the lower court and ordered the lawsuit to be dismissed “without prejudice,” allowing the teens to bring a new legal challenge. That gave them a partial victory.
Seven teens represented by Our Children’s Trust sued Governor Spencer Cox and Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas & Mining. They basically argued that the state’s energy policies — with a heavy reliance on fossil fuels — contributes heavily to climate change and that harms their health, in violation of the Utah Constitution’s “right to life” provision. They were asking the Utah Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit and the justices heard arguments last year. (snip)
But Justice Hagen and the rest of the Court did leave a door open for the teens to bring a new legal claim. They ordered the lawsuit to be dismissed “without prejudice.”
“In the proceedings below, the youth plaintiffs did not seek leave to amend their complaint. So once the district court determined that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction, it should have dismissed the complaint without prejudice, providing the youth plaintiffs an opportunity to cure the jurisdictional deficiencies in a repleaded complaint,” she wrote.
So, the youts and their big money astroturf enablers can waste more time and money bringing another suit in an attempt to force Everyone Else to comply with their cult beliefs. And, sadly, the Court didn’t ask the youts if they had given up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral. But, remember, the cult will never give up.
That’s OK. Dems will just shop around for a better court and try again. They should get the DC circuit court to issue an injunction against the Utah court to prevent them from dismissing this case.
The rule of law is quickly disintegrating in this country because the left doesn’t like the law and refuses to pass any laws, choosing instead to govern by FIAT. The bottomless barrel of rabbit hole money sent to 1000’s of agencies doing their bidding without government oversight is much better than LAWS.
“Who needs laws” should be the next Democratic candidate for President’s campaign slogan in 2028.
“Our third, and least valuable, branch of gubmint, the Judiciary, is a total waste”.
In order, the importance of the branches is in our Constitution:
Legislative – Article 1 – (2,302 words)
Executive – Article 2 – (1,025 words)
Judiciary – Article 3 – (377 words, LOL)
The States – Article 4 – (330 words)
Gradually, the Executive branch has been usurping the intended ‘power’ of Congress. FDR, Truman, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump 2.0…
Now, the emasculation of Congress is complete. The Executive Branch is now able to ‘hire and fire’ Congress members, thanks to Citizens United vs FEC, and the concentration of wealth in the plutocrats. The superwealthy can make or break Representatives and Senators.
Today, the plutocracy is taking dead aim at the Judiciary! Their ‘boy’, Donald, is being pushed to commit unConstitutional acts – ‘just do it’ – ignore judicial rulings. Once that line is crossed – our Democratic Constitutional Republic is no more – we’re a monarchy, with no need of a Constitution.
The techno-plutocrats (Musk, Zuck, Bannon, Bowman/Vance, Thiel, Yarvin, Trump, John Galt etc) understand that the time of democracy has come and gone. Life moves too fast today and democracy cannot keep up. We need high IQ/energy men to rule us. The Dark Enlightenment.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript