Kevin Kiley spoke about the way iconic US cities have been dismantled by their Democratic governments

 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition by 19 Republican-led states, including Alabama, to block five Democratic-led states from suing Big Oil for misleading the public about the role fossil fuels have played in climate change.

The states’ conservative attorneys general brought a case directly to the Supreme Court criticizing cases filed in different state courts against companies including Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell and BP. The justices declined to hear the case. Many states, including California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island, filed those lawsuits together.

Nearly all of the cases the Supreme Court hears are appeals from a lower court’s decision. But America’s highest court has “original jurisdiction” over a small number of cases in which states sue each other.

States governed by Democrats sued energy companies for financial damages, arguing they were either making the public unhappy or violating state laws by hiding from the public for decades that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change. The companies said they had done nothing wrong.