Except when they don't.
Wall Street Journal (10/22/19) editorial: "Does the law count for anything when the target of a prosecution is politically unpopular? That’s the question to keep in mind this week as New York’s attorney general opens her climate-change show trial in state court against Exxon Mobil Corp. This saga began more than three years ago when 20 state AGs and Al Gore held a press conference to launch an investigation into unproven newspaper claims that Exxon had hidden from the public evidence of climate harm it knew to be true...Despite years of discovery and scouring millions of documents, the New York AG’s lawyers found no such evidence...We doubt Ms. James cares all that much if she wins in any case. If she loses at trial, she’ll appeal to higher state courts to keep the publicity alive. And even if she loses every appeal, she’ll have done her political duty as a progressive and harassed a corporate sinner. If this legal attack doesn’t work, maybe another one will...Last we checked, drilling for oil and gas was still legal, and Exxon and other companies in the industry provide a livelihood, directly or indirectly, for millions of American families. But to the climate alarmists, they must be destroyed."
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And if they can't win in court they can count on the House to investigate another nothing burger.
Inside Sources (10/21/19) column: "The cost of the Green New Deal may hit consumers too hard to make it through the U.S. Congress, even if Democrats sweep the 2020 elections. But get ready for federal litigation racking up legal bills for taxpayers. On Wednesday, a U.S. House Oversight subcommittee will host a hearing, “Examining the Oil Industry’s Efforts to Suppress the Truth about Climate Change.” A hearing like this featuring “Squad” members U.S. Reps. Ayana Pressley and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez — fresh off the latter’s endorsement of Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders — should make for quite a show....But this week’s hearing will also advance another strategy being pursued by green extremists, one already responsible for costly legal bills to taxpayers across the country. Based on the hearing’s witnesses, it appears that if Democrats win the White House, they will push forward with partisan climate litigation targeting energy companies, prosecuted by the federal government and paid for by taxpayers."
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"Here's the bottom line: the left has latched on to climate change. The issue is a Trojan horse. They scream about the end of the world and use the scare for Socialists to take over the economy. The Exxon show trial is just a part of the whole sorry mess."
– Stuart Varney, Fox Business
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