Lighthiser v. Trump: Another Kids Climate Suit
Last month, environmental activists filed suit against the Trump Administration on behalf of 22 youth alleging that President Trump’s various Executive Orders calling for environmental deregulation and the encouragement of energy production are unconstitutional. Specifically the complaint in Lighthiser v. Trump alleges that Trump’s energy-related EOs “violate the Fifth Amendment substantive due process clause on their face by depriving Plaintiffs of their fundamental rights to life and liberty and are ultra vires in assuming powers reserved to and exercised by Congress through Article I.”
This suit, much like prior “kids climate” cases alleging a judicially enforceable federal constitutional right to climate action, is unlikely to go anywhere (favorable press coverage notwithstanding). There is simply no basis in existing law upon which to claim that there is a f
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