Senate asked to investigate Elena Kagan’s ‘global warming’ bias before Supreme Court hears case * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Leaders from a long list of rights organizations have told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court Justice Elena’s Kagan’s “global warming” bias needs to be investigated, and she should not participate in a looming case over the issue.

Advocates from the Judicial Crisis Network, the Heritage Foundation, the National Republican Lawyers Foundation and others have written to the committee regrading Kagan’s blatant advocacy for climate change issues.

The case that is coming was brought by leftists in Boulder, Colorado, against Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, claiming that the defendants’ fossil fuel activities cause “climate change” and that hurts Boulder residents.

Boulder is demanding damages for public and private nuisance, trespass, unjust enrichment, civil conspiracy and more, but the biggest impact of whatever ruling results is that the local officials want to be able to impose their climate ideologies on corporations worldwide.

The goal, essentially, is that any government anywhere could create a new list of demands for energy companies and force them to comply globally.

The corporations explain local regulation such as Boulder’s demands are pre-empted by federal law, including the Clean Air Act.

Leftists in Colorado’s highest court – these are the same Democrats who partisanly, and unsuccessfully, demanded that President Donald Trump be kept off the 2024 presidential ballot – decided the case could move forward with Boulder’s state law claims.

Officials there want to use their own nuisance laws to prevent global energy corporations from emitting pollutants, ever.

According to a report in the Center Square, the letter points to Kagan’s authorship of a foreword in the Fourth Edition of the “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence,” from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine from last year.

The report explained, “The manual included a chapter on Climate Science, where it referenced the ‘attribution theory.’ The theory is used to posit that scientific modeling is used to attribute the effects of climate change from greenhouse gas emissions.”

The letter warns Congress, “This section was designed to persuade ‘skeptical’ judges in state and local climate lawfare.” And, the letter said, the section was added by individuals “who advocate for legislation to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.”

The letter said, “The chapter was so biased that the Federal Judicial Center, which produced the Reference Manual with the National Academies, withdrew it from the version it publishes in response to complaints from multiple state attorneys general and Congress.”

But, that means that Kagan was taking part in an agenda to push the global warming aka climate change ideology, and that’s part of the evidence that “she is unable to make an unbiased decision in Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners.”

They note the Constitution requires justices on the Supreme Court to recuse themselves from consideration of cases in which ‘impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

She already has joined in the case, taking part in the vote whether to hear the case, the report said

Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, told the publication Kagan cannot act as a “neutral arbiter” in climate change cases. She said Kagan’s writing in the manual was an endorsement of its ideals.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.