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The Cure for Left-Wing Lawfare Is Not Litigation Finance Reform

In recent years, left-wing activists have increasingly turned to America’s courts as the solution to their policy failures elsewhere. After countless failed attempts to enact progressive mandates through Congress and federal agencies—the Green New Deal, firearm bans, and other unpopular policies—activist groups have been aggressively teaming up with trial lawyers in an effort to force their policy preferences on the American populace through the courtrooms of America.

A clear example of this lawfare campaign is climate change litigation. More than three dozen left-wing states and municipalities have launched climate lawsuits against America’s energy producers. They argue that the industry’s purported role in climate change has created a “public nuisance” in their jurisdictions that warrants court orders unlocking billions in funding for left-wing groups and a change in corporate energy policy.

In truth, the climate plaintiffs, as at least one of their attorney-advisers has admitted, are weaponizing public nuisance to impose a backdoor carbon tax on American consumers and try to force energy companies into bankruptcy. The Supreme Court will hear one of these cases, Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, this fall.

Rightfully, many conservatives concerned about such abuses of our court system have pressured Congress and state legislatures to pass measures to address this lawfare problem. Many states, like Kansas and Utah, have approached this concern correctly by tackling head-on the weaponization of public nuisance law against American industries. And in Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz,........

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