Posted on 08/24/2025 9:53:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
According to letter to Bondi, emails show seminars were conducted by experts who were ideologically motivated in favor of the plaintiffs in these cases.
An energy advocacy group is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine the involvement of the Federal Judiciary Center, a research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government, in educating judges involved in climate litigation.
According to a letter to Bondi from Power the Future, the Federal Judiciary Center (FJC) is engaged in a secretive effort to bias judges as part of a “coordinated, national lawfare campaign” against oil companies and other large emitters. This effort, according to the letter, has reached 1,800 judges, including federal judges.
Power the Future is asking Bondi to provide more oversight of the FJC’s activities to ensure they provide unbiased education to judges involved in climate litigation, and to provide
They’re “deliberately cultivating these judges the way you would cultivate a mentee,” Daniel Turner, executive director of Power the Future, told Just the News.
‘Arguments from nonbelievers’
According to the letter, the FJC hosted seminars for judges with speakers drawn exclusively from the plaintiffs’ witnesses or those filing “friend of the court” briefs in support of the plaintiffs’ complaints. Emails the group obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request, the letter to Bondi said, bolster Power the Future’s accusation that the seminars are ideologically motivated in favor of the plaintiffs in these cases.
In February 2012, Dr. Don Wuebbles, who provided expert testimony in a lawsuit filed by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against five oil companies — accusing them of damages stemming from weather events the plaintiffs claimed was caused by climate change — emailed Paul Hanle,...
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The CORRUPTION in our government is THROUGH THE ROOF. The next thing we’ll hear is that the entire Ukraine War was created simply to keep the money flowing to US and European politicians, as Putin was threatening to stop that flow.
Just kidding, no way would there be corruption in something as ‘pure as the wind-driven snow’, that being the Ukrainian government.
Please forgive me for implying that.
I’ve got another dumb question: Why does the Federal Judiciary Center exist in the first place?
If judges aren’t deciding cases based solely on the arguments and evidence adduced at trial then how can the litigants expect a fair hearing?
Judicial education is essential so that judges understand broadly the proceedings that come before them, not just the narrow slices that a particular case presents. In my experience as a lawyer often lawyers don’t know about recent important changes in the law. Judicial education allows judges to be on top of the latest developments. So I think it’s important and unfortunately bias can and does sneak i to the curriculum. That said, the executive and legislative branches have nothing to say about this as far as dictating content
This is like our doctors attending continuing education seminars hosted by Big Pharma.
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