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Nearly two dozen conservative groups asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday to look into why Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has not recused herself from an upcoming case involving \u201cclimate lawfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a five-page letter, the groups note that Justice Kagan wrote the foreword to the \u201cFourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.\u201d The manual, published by the National Academy of Sciences in December, includes a chapter titled \u201cClimate Science\u201d that details the effects of greenhouse-gas emitters and climate change.<\/p>\n

The chapter advised \u201cclimate lawfare\u201d plaintiffs on how to persuade \u201cskeptical\u201d judges to consider state and local climate disputes, according to the groups\u2019 letter to the Senate committee.<\/p>\n

The term \u201cclimate lawfare\u201d was coined after state and local governments targeted big oil companies in high-profile court cases in an attempt to hold them liable for damages related to climate change.<\/p>\n

The manual chapter at issue was later withdrawn due to criticism about bias.<\/p>\n

But Justice Kagan\u2019s foreword noted: \u201cIn the coming years, judges will confront lawsuits relating, for example, to artificial intelligence, climate science, and epidemiology \u2026 Enter this manual.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCase in and case out, the instruction that the manual offers in scientific principles and methods can improve the quality of judicial decision making,\u201d the justice wrote.<\/p>\n

The conservative groups say the foreword is problematic because the justices will hear arguments in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County next term, which begins in October. The high court will decide if federal law prevents states from holding oil companies accountable for interstate greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change.<\/p>\n

The conservative organizations want the Senate Judiciary Committee to evaluate whether Justice Kagan violated federal law under 28 USC 455, which details reasons a justice, judge or magistrate should be disqualified from weighing a legal battle.<\/p>\n

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They say she has prejudged the issue and should not participate in considering the Suncor Energy case.<\/p>\n

They also are raising the issue of the court\u2019s self-adopted recusal and ethics rules in 2023, in which the justices moved to apply the federal law to themselves. The high court previously did not have formal recusal measures.<\/p>\n

Still, critics note there is no formal body that enforces the ethics code and recusals on the justices.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Elena Kagan\u2019s inconsistent recusal history undermines confidence in the impartiality of the Supreme Court,\u201d said Carrie Severino, president of JCN (formerly the Justice Crisis Network), one of the conservative groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer latest failure to recuse herself comes after she wrote the introduction to the National Academies\u2019 reference manual, effectively giving a judicial endorsement to its biased climate science chapter, which was written with the cooperation of climate lawfare litigators,\u201d Ms. Severino said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice Kagan\u2019s participation in the Suncor case is indefensible given her public endorsement of climate lawfare plaintiffs\u2019 theories,\u201d she added. \u201cIf Justice Kagan will not take it upon herself to follow the law, the Senate Judiciary Committee must step in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokespersons for the high court and the Senate Judiciary Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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