On Oct. 5, the United States Supreme Court will hear argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the most consequential climate liability lawfare case to ever reach the Court.

As I have written previously, the Boulder case is just one of over three dozen climate change lawsuits brought by left-wing states, cities, and counties across America. And while each of the climate plaintiffs presents its case as a matter of resolving local harms resulting from the energy industry’s purported role in climate change, their real aim is broader: to reshape American energy policy and the American economy one state court verdict at a time. (RELATED: Blockbuster Colorado Climate Case Takes First Amendment Turn)

Earlier in August, more than two dozen nonprofit groups, academics, former government officials and other interested parties filed amicus briefs supporting Boulder. Least surprising were the blue cities and counties, joined by their counsel at the leading climate plaintiffs’ firm Sher Edling, pleading with the Court to keep their climate lawfare cases alive. But the left’s lawfare machine didn’t stop there, with others, including constitutional law scholars and members of Congress, pressing for the same outcome.

What is telling about these briefs is how they bear the marks of the dark money machinery behind the climate lawfare campaign and help to remind us that this campaign is an ideological effort to end-run the ballot box in service of left-wing........

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