I thought my capacity for shock at judicial activism was exhausted, but an April 8 decision by a federal judge to allow a group of children to sue the federal government to stop climate change literally caused me to burst out laughing. The Left, of course, is giddy.
Plaintiffs' complaint – all 100 pages of it – and related pleadings contain the usual litany of climate change alarmists' dire predictions of catastrophe if the planet warms a little – including allegations that climate change will affect their right to vote and ability to bear children (seriously). They pair those warnings with attacks on the U.S. government for allowing fossil fuel production and consumption to increase.
BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey, named in a lawsuit by a band of pro-Common Core plaintiffs who allege she erred in certifying an initiative petition that would let voters decide whether to keep the controversial standards or revert to Massachusetts' own pre-2010 frameworks, has responded with a court filing of her own.
Healey is defending her office's decision to certify the initiative after opponents, backed by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, hired the legal powerhouse Foley Hoag in an attempt to convince the state Supreme Judicial Court that the proposed ballot question is vaguely worded and conflicts with the state Constitution.
