Washington, D.C. - Power The Future (PTF) is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the origins and approval of a suspicious national "lawfare" campaign that coordinates "climate education" efforts. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, PTF outlined evidence uncovered by bombshell Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests suggesting the Federal Judicial Center (FJC)—a taxpayer-funded research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government—has partnered with left-leaning environmental activist groups to present one-sided climate litigation seminars to thousands of state and federal judges. Through PTF's open records work, emails reveal participants in the program bragging about providing federal judges with arguments to counteract "nonbelievers."
"Judges must be impartial arbiters of the law, not captive audiences to one side of a political lawfare, and these documents raise serious questions about judicial impartiality and conflicts of interest," said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director of Power The Future. "The American people deserve to know which judges took part in these programs, who crafted the curriculum, and whether their participation compromised their ability to rule fairly. The coordinated lawfare campaign against President Trump has been well documented, but this latest troubling chapter deserves immediate attention and sunlight so the public knows who is the mastermind of this orchestrated effort to impose the green agenda from the bench."
The letter, which can be found here, details how these seminars, organized under the think tank Environmental Law Institute's "Climate Judiciary Project," were designed to expose judges to presentations from plaintiffs' witnesses and advocates in high-profile climate lawsuits. Some communications boast about influencing judges' perspectives and connecting the presentations directly to cases on their dockets.
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