I’d actually like to see the 9th Circuit take this up, and ask the kiddies one question “have you stopped using fossil fuels/petroleum in your own lives?”
Youth climate lawsuit seeks full Ninth Circuit hearing
A group of young plaintiffs, who sued the federal government alleging a series of executive orders threaten their constitutional right to life by exacerbating climate change, are still fighting their battle in court.
After a three-judge panel on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the lawsuit’s arguments in June over a lack of plausible link between their alleged injuries and the federal actions, the plaintiffs are asking the full Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear their case and “correct the three-judge panel’s abdication of law and duty,” according to a press release by law firm Our Children’s Trust.
Look, I’m not a lawyer, but, that kind of language would rather tick me off as a judge, and would cause one of two things: A: reject the plea outright, or B: hold the hearing, and utterly roast the little idiots and their lawyers in open court.
“The panel’s decision is the first in American history to deny courts the power to review an unconstitutional executive order. That is not a small mistake. That is constitutional corruption,” said Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel and Co-Executive Director of Our Children’s Trust. “No president should be able to direct a sweeping fossil fuel agenda that endangers children’s lives and face zero judicial review. The full Ninth Circuit has the opportunity and the obligation to correct that.”
Lighthiser v. Trump is one of a series of youth-led climate change lawsuits brought by Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based advocacy law firm, which also successfully litigated Held v. Montana in 2023. The plaintiffs include young people from Montana, Oregon, Hawaii, California, and Florida.
Really, all the yutes are simply human shields to support the big money groups behind all this. It’s pure astroturf.
Federal District Court Judge Dana Christensen said he had dismissed the case “reluctantly,” but the scope of the request from the 22 young people was “an unworkable request.”
The circuit court agreed, saying granting an injunction rolling back three Executive Orders would require “extensive judicial supervision of executive branch actions related to energy policy.” (big snip to the end)
The Constitution gave us the tools to hold our government to its promise,” lead plaintiffs Eva Lighthiser said. “We are 22 young people using exactly those tools, and we are asking the full Ninth Circuit to do its part. Two hundred and fifty years later, the promise still has to mean something.”
Yeah, well, we have a voting system to deal with this. If the kiddies do not like this they should convince people to support their cause.
The “youts’ have time on their side. the oldies over 55 are becoming even more of a minority.
Times change faster than people