Posted on 03/08/2018 11:05:29 AM PST by Enlightened1
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in favor of 21 children and young adults suing the U.S. government for not doing enough to protect their constitutional right to a stable climate.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges refused to grant mandamus relief and block the U.S. District Court in Oregon from hearing the suit, which was originally filed by the environmental group Our Children’s Trust in 2015.
A federal judge in Oregon ruled in 2016 the 21 youngsters had standing to sue. President Donald Trump’s administration and oil and gas groups appealed the decision in June 2017. They asked judges to “end this clearly improper attempt to have the judiciary decide important questions of energy and environmental policy” and upset the balance of powers. The Ninth Circuit disagreed.
“There is enduring value in the orderly administration of litigation by the trial courts, free of needless appellate interference,” Judge Sidney Thomas wrote on behalf of the court.
“If appellate review could be invoked whenever a district court denied a motion to dismiss, we would be quickly overwhelmed with such requests, and the resolution of cases would be unnecessarily delayed,” Thomas wrote.
The ruling is a victory for environmental activists seeking to use the courts to force the Trump administration to issue regulations to phase out fossil fuels. Julia Olson, Our Children’s Trust chief counsel, said the ruling gives a “green light for trial.”
Olson’s case on behalf of youngsters argues constitutional rights to life, liberty and property are being violated by the federal government’s failure to enact policies to stop catastrophic global warming.
Plaintiffs say the right to a stable climate comes from the public trust doctrine — the idea certain natural resources should be protected for enjoyment of future generations. Policies to encourage coal, oil and natural gas use...
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LOLOL
Heck, some of them might be old enough to drink by now.
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I don’t know, without any injury, how this group’s standing was upheld. But fighting in court may be a good thing. At long last, environmentalists would be compelled to defend their predictions. If their predictions are accurate, they should be able to predict some event out just a week. All their proprietary and unverified “data” would be subject to review. The millions of dollars funding the agenda would be calculated and exposed.
These would be wonderful outcomes.
Can we sue Obama too?
CONGRESS NEEDS TO BE PETITIONED TO ELIMINATE ALL THESE FEDERAL COURTS THEY CREATED. The solution is NOT filling then with conservatives. A future liberal regime with restock it with juridical lunatics like these people.
The only court authorized by the Constitution is the Supreme Court
Creating these other bodies merely provides forums for the Federal bureaucracy to intrude into our lives at every turn through ridiculous litigation by the ACLU, Freedom from Religion Foundation, and other freakish creations of uber rich elitist liberals who have nothing better to do with their time and money.
Isaiah 3:4-5 KJV
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isn’t it grand to living in the days of the Prophets warned about?
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Take the whole Ninth Circuit court out and hang them. It’s the only cure for this insanity.
That's odd. I do not see the words or phrase *stable climate* in the Constitution.
So changes in the weather are unconstitutional? I’m suing because I hate winter.
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