Posted on 01/17/2020 12:24:18 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A federal appeals court on Friday tossed a climate change lawsuit brought by a group of children who sought a court order to force the U.S. government to phase out fossil fuel emissions.
A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said that while the lawsuit raised critical issues concerning the government’s promotion of fossil fuels, they were beyond the court’s power to resolve.
“Reluctantly, we conclude that such relief is beyond our constitutional power,” Judge Andrew Hurwitz wrote for the majority. “Rather, the plaintiffs’ impressive case for redress must be presented to the political branches of government.”
Hurwitz’s opinion was joined by Judge Mary Murguia. Dissenting from the majority was Judge Josephine Staton, who usually presides over a federal trial court in California but was designated to the appellate case. All three judges were appointed by President Obama.
The 21 children and their allies who first brought the suit in 2015 alleged that U.S. policy encouraging and subsidizing the use of fossil fuels had inflicted climate change-related injuries and imperiled their constitutional right to a “climate system capable of sustaining human life.”
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an obvious coverup by science deniers- refusing to hear these 12 year old climate experts
A great explanation and exposure of the Climate Change Fraud:
Climate change: What can I do about it and other questions?
Answer: Absolutely nothing.
Climate change: What can the government do about it?
Answer: Absolutely nothing.
Climate change: What can the Democrats do about it?
Answer: Steal your money, wreck the economy and in the end absolutely nothing.
28 posted on 1/17/2020, 10:10:39 AM by outpostinmass2
WUT? With nearly 6 of 10 (5.3728 of10?) being mildly concerned, HOW DARE THEY?! Expect a call from grrrrreta. Okay DOOMERS!
Frivolous crap was only processed for publicity.
Well, there goes Al’s raise.
So adults are not buying your hysteria? Then try it on children.
Maybe they should have brought a suit to lower the drinking age.
Probably the first time the 9th Circus said anything was beyond their Constitutional power.
It used to be, before the critical legal studies grads got into the courts that such nonsense would get thrown out of court at the lowest level and never see a jury or get ruled on. Now lots of stupid stuff becomes judicially created law and frivolous suits are won because judges don’t automatically throw this trash out and juries believe there must be something substantive here else it would not have been accepted in a judge’s court.
The court MUST take judicial notice of Greta Thundberg and the fact that the sky is falling.( sarc.)
Whats wrong with the courts anyway, soon they will go the way of the dinosaurs. We need a totalitarian state to make government solve the climate change. Of course we all know that government has the power of God....we will just make them do the job! ( heavy sarc.)
BTW, the COLD is BACK:
The NASA earth observatory photographs do not lie.They need NO computer modeling to interpret them.
“Major Greenland Glacier Is Growing” ( NASA OBSERVATORY)
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145185/major-greenland-glacier-is-growing
This took 5 years? WTF!
OK, the appeals court threw out the Democrats lawsuit, what about the children’s suit?
“A federal appeals court on Friday tossed a climate change lawsuit brought by a group of children who sought a court order to force the U.S. government to phase out fossil fuel emissions.
A DIVIDED three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals”
If you people want to understand why I say that we ALWAYS need to vote for Republicans, even RINOs, over Democrats, it is because of cases like this. RINOs, at least, nearly always SUPPORT Trump’s judges - Democrats DO NOT (at least when told to vote that way).
In this example, a lawsuit that should have been DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE by the local clerk, along with huge fines, wound up getting a SPLIT DECISION by a US Appeals Court.
What should REALLY scare people is that this isn’t school prayer or rights of the accused, this is PURE LEGISLATIVE POLICY going around our elected representatives...that’s where we’re at now, but THANK GOD there are enough RINOs in the Senate to get Trump the 50 votes he needs to have seated so many judges, particularly on this court.
“Democracy” in action.
I would like for the Supreme Court to rule on the term “Fossil Fuels”.
And you still get your asinine lawsuit thrown out? It's time to find another line of work...
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