I’m sure the youts won’t give up in trying to force their beliefs on Everyone Else, just like they won’t give their own use of fossil fuels and their big carbon footprints
US Supreme Court will not hear novel youth-led climate change case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by 21 young people to revive a novel lawsuit claiming the U.S. government’s energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate change.
The justices denied a request by the youth activists to hear their appeal of a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directing a federal judge in Oregon to dismiss the case after holding they lacked legal standing to sue.
The decision marks the end of Juliana v. United States, one of the longest-running climate change cases that youth activists have filed nationwide and one that the plaintiffs’ lawyers say helped sparked a broader youth-led movement for climate rights.
“The Supreme Court’s decision today is not the end of the road and the impact of Juliana cannot be measured by the finality of this case alone,” Julia Olson, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at Our Children’s Trust, said in a statement.
Our Children’s Trust and its youth clients have filed a series of lawsuits accusing state and federal governments of exacerbating climate change by adopting policies that encourage or allow the extraction and burning of fossil fuels in violation of their rights.
Completely astroturfed cases driven by adult climate cultists using children as brainwashed props. And, they will file more and more. Most cults leave other people alone.
It’s a quixotic notion that judges can compel legislatures to take actions as they direct, but that’s what the “youts” — a pronunciation used by the late, great Rush Limbaugh, for those who don’t know — want to achieve.
The “youts” have every right to campaign and run for office to get legislative majorities to pass the laws they want. But it sure is strange that most congressional and state legislative candidates don’t campaign much about fighting
global warmingclimate change. Why, it’s almost as though they see it as a vote-loser.