Montana Senator Will Get These Lousy Climate Change Kids And Their Little Dogs Too!
Hey Steve Daines? Fuck you.
The Montana Kidz Bop by which I mean the youths have succeeded in their lawsuit against the state of Montana for refusing to follow the (progressive, kickass) 1970s-era state constitution that requires
(1) The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.
(2) The legislature shall provide for the administration and enforcement of this duty.
(3) The legislature shall provide adequate remedies for the protection of the environmental life support system from degradation and provide adequate remedies to prevent unreasonable depletion and degradation of natural resources.
In “the strongest decision on climate change ever issued by any court,” Judge Kathy Seeley agreed with the 16 young plaintiffs that refusing to do anything about climate change, to the point that the Lege specifically outlawed even considering climate impacts when deciding whether or not to permit energy projects, was in fact illegal and also fuck you. The state’s attorneys had argued that the Legislature doubling down on that, by “specifically ban[ning] the state from considering greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews for new energy projects” mooted the lawsuit — presumably because the Lege had codified what was just Montana state executive branch policy, would be my extremely well-considered guess of “not a lawyer but read Liz a lot.”
So Montana’s junior senator, Steve Daines, is feelin’ pissy.
“Activist judges, even here in MT, are helping far-Left environmentalists push their green hallucination down the throats of Americans,” he tweeted, like an asshole whose state isn’t now always on fire. “Shutting down energy projects that support an all-of-the-above energy portfolio is setting America on a dangerous path. We must reverse course.”
Of course, you don’t need me to explain that the “activist judge” followed the plain words of the state constitution; that the “far-Left environmentalists” are young people making use of their right to petition the government to redress their grievance of THE WORLD IS ON FIRE; and that “green hallucination” just burned down every inch of Lahaina. As to the all-of-the-above energy portfolio, Steve Daines is — what’s the word? — lying again. His “all of the above” doesn’t include anything that doesn’t actively make the problem of THE WORLD IS ON FIRE worse, and then shitmouth over there lies about it like a man whose mouth is fashioned of shit.
In the meantime, the children of Hawaii are having their day in court next year. Something tells me they won’t have to work too hard to get their judge to see the evidence that burned down all around them.
So! Wonkers!
I actually wrote about this thing last night in my Notes:
https://substack.com/profile/13992719-crip-dyke/note/c-22389593
Why should you go read that thing? Because this lawsuit shows to me the genius of Charles Hamilton Houston, the greatest lawyer you've never heard of. Rather than Thurgood Marshall, Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas), et. al. was actually the brainchild of Houston. And his evil plan all along was to USE Plessy v. Fergusson in order to undermine Plessy v. Fergusson. The whole thing was outrageously smart.
It started with Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada and wandered through Oklahoma and Texas before landing in Topeka. Why is this important to read now?
Well, as it turns out the Montana case was a very small victory, but it was necessary to set the precedent that would make possible the later victories. This strategy was Houston's, though we remember Marshall because as Houston's protegé he was the one who argued Brown before SCOTUS when Houston, at the end of his life, could not. (Houston, IIRC, lived through the arguments before the Supreme Court but not long enough to read its decision.)
Go read my note -- including, probably, various typos because I wrote it when I was tired last night, and if I have time I'll expand on it even more later today and put it in a regular Pervert Justice post.
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