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Judge Planet and the Planeteers

Judge Planet and the Planeteers

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

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…