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Kids Lawsuit On Climate Change Can Go Forward

The Obama administration did the kids a solid before they left.

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I bet if we made a hotline for donations to stop climate change and called it 1-877-Klimate-4-Kids and set it to the Kars-4-Kids jingle we’d have climate change licked by 2020. Cause, like, I’d actually steal cars and donate them to Kars-4-Kids if it would make them stop playing that damn commercial.

Failing that, maybe the climate change lawsuit will work.

For years now, a group of children (represented by attorneys, of course) have been suing the federal government for knowingly creating climate change, by ignoring their own evidence and ruining the climate.

The government has tried to block the suit at every turn, and many analysts think it’s little more than a stunt.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene to stop the children. The lawsuit keeps howling, like this swirling storm inside. The government’s plans have been to conceal, not feel, don’t let them know.

But now they know.

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Thanks to… Obama

From Courthouse News:

The government lost two appeals to the Ninth Circuit before being shot down by the Supreme Court.

Another difficulty for the government is the history of its own briefs in the case, which was filed during the Obama administration. Barely two weeks before President Donald Trump took office, Obama’s Justice Department filed a reply to the kids’ lawsuit acknowledging in alarming detail the degree to which climate change has progressed, the calamitous threat it poses to current and future generations and some of the government’s role in causing the situation.

Attorneys who took over the case after Trump took office couldn’t erase that document trail.

The Trump administration is now expected to argue that climate change has gotten so bad that there’s nothing the U.S. Government can do about it so the kids have no remedy.

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Kids’ Climate Change Suit Against US Headed to Trial [Courthouse News]

Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.

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