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Anonymous ID: 9e33aa March 12, 2021, 10:56 a.m. No.13192776   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2859

Attorney General Todd Rokita Fights California’s Efforts to Impose Nationwide Climate Change Policy

 

INDIANAPOLIS — California has no right to use its own state courts to impose climate change policy on Indiana and the rest of the nation, Attorney General Todd Rokita argues in an 18-state brief filed March 11 in the U.S. Supreme Court. “Hoosiers should not be ruled by the Left Coast,” Attorney General Rokita said today.

 

The brief involves a lawsuit by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland that seeks to hold several major fossil fuel companies liable for the costs of global climate change. Attorney General Rokita asks the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court’s decision allowing the cities to keep their lawsuit in state court. The cities claim in their lawsuit that the companies have broken the “common law” of “public nuisance” by producing and selling fossil fuels.

 

Attorney General Rokita explains in his brief that federal law gives the defendants a right to have such a common-law public-nuisance claim heard by a federal court, not a state court.

By handing a case of such national scope to California courts, he writes, the federal appeals court “thereby excludes other States from the climate-change policymaking process and threatens to undermine the cooperative federalism model our country has long used to address environmental problems.”

 

Lauren.Houck@atg.in.gov

Anonymous ID: 9e33aa March 12, 2021, 10:59 a.m. No.13192796   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2865

11 States File Motion to Revive Fight for Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Rule

By Jack Phillips March 11, 2021

 

Eleven states filed a motion challenging the White House’s move to rescind a Trump-era policy that seeks to ensure that immigrants can financially support themselves in order to become American citizens or obtain permanent residency.

 

The motion, led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, is part of a lawsuit that his office filed on Feb. 3 against a recent immigration policy issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that halts most deportations for 100 days.

 

But the new motion—filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals—pertains to the “Public Charge Rule” after the Biden administration abandoned the defense of the law in the Supreme Court.

 

“It is unconscionable to overwhelm our infrastructure and immigration personnel when we are dealing with the health and economic devastation of the pandemic,” said Brnovich, a Republican, in a statement on March 11. “While regardless of one’s position on immigration reform, this reckless violation of federal law is only creating another national crisis and putting additional strains on our state and hardworking Arizona taxpayers.”

 

Brnovich’s lawsuit (pdf) said that “invalidation of the Public Charge Rule will impose injury on the states” to the tune of about “$1.01 billion in foregone savings in transfer payments for all states annually.”

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/11-states-file-motion-to-revive-fight-for-trumps-public-charge-immigration-rule