Far-right fossil fuel allies have launched a stunning and unprecedented campaign pressuring the supreme court to shield fossil fuel companies from litigation that could cost them billions of dollars.who helped select Trump’s supreme court nominees. Leo also appears to have ties to Chevron, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.“He’s really crafted the supreme court,” said Lisa Graves, executive director of the progressive watchdog group True North Research and an expert on Leonard Leo’s network.
“Honolulu is attempting to use the law of one state to dominate the others,” wrote Carrie Severino, president of the, one of many non-profits led by Leo, the powerful far-right judicial activist who also co-chairs the rightwing legal advocacy group the Federalist Society.
“This Honolulu case directly impacts Chevron as well as many other climate cases where Chevron is a defendant, so while we don’t yet know what corporate interests are behind the Alliance for Consumers pressure campaign, we keep following our noses,” he said.The political campaign, said Graves, is a clear sign that the US judiciary has been “captured by Leonard Leo and his billionaire benefactors”.