Emails that have just been unearthed by Fox News reveal that climate activists have been working with dozens of leftwing judges via a private listserv, influencing them with phony climate change science so they can fund climate litigation against industries they hate, like the fossil fuel industry, and get favorable outcomes.
Ted Cruz explains it like this:
“They fund CJP to train judges. So, “train” in climate science and make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics. Then, these left-wing bankrollers turn around and fund the climate litigators who will bring these bogus cases before those same judges that they’ve just indoctrinated.”
Here’s more via Fox News:
An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to promote favorable info and litigation updates regarding climate issues – until the email-styled group chat was abruptly made private, Fox News Digital found.
The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) was founded in 2018 by a left-wing environmental nonprofit, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and pitches itself as a “first-of-its-kind effort” that “provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.”
But critics, such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, say CJP is funded by China and left-wing activists for one purpose.
“They fund CJP to train judges,” Cruz said during a June hearing. “So, quote, unquote, train in climate science and make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics. Then, these left-wing bankrollers turn around and fund the climate litigators who will bring these bogus cases before those same judges that they’ve just indoctrinated.
“This is like paying the players to play and paying the umpire to call the shots the way you want.”
The group, however, says it provides “neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as it is understood by the expert scientific community and relevant to current and future litigation.”
One of the efforts CJP launched included rolling out an email-styled listserv by which leaders from the Climate Judiciary Project could message directly with judges, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show. The listserv was launched in September 2022 and maintained until May 2024, according to the documents. A portal website page for the forum was previously publicly available, with an archived link saved in July 2024 showing there were 29 members in the group.
“Judicial Leaders in Climate Science,” the archived website link reviewed by Fox Digital reads, accompanied by a short description that the group was a “Forum for Judicial Leaders in Climate Science to share resources.”
A link to the forum now leads to an error warning, stating, “Sorry, but that group does not exist.”
Here’s an example of the kind of garbage these judges used the listserv for…
Fox News Digital obtained the archived chat history of the forum, which detailed numerous messages between at least five judges and CJP employees trading links on climate studies, congratulating one another on hosting recent environmental events, sharing updates on recent climate cases that were remanded to state courts, and encouraging each other to participate in other CJP meet-ups.
One message posted by Delaware Judge Travis Laster, vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, features a YouTube video of a 2022 climate presentation delivered by a Delaware official and a Columbia University professor that focused on the onslaught of climate lawsuits since the mid-2000s. It also included claims that such lawsuits could one day bankrupt the fuel industry.
Laster shared the video in the group with a disclaimer to others: “Because the link is of a judicial event that is otherwise not public, please do not forward or use without checking with me. I suspect that goes without saying, but the powers that be will be happier that I said it.”
A handful of other judges responded to Laster’s video and message, praising it as “great work.”
The left is relentless in trying to accomplish their goals however they can, even if unethical or even possibly illegal. I hope these judges get disbarred and Trump replaces them with solid judges.