Amy Coney Barrett Is Doubling Down on Climate Denial
Democrats finally pressed Amy Coney Barrett to commit to recuse herself from oil company cases. In response, she is now refusing — and reiterating her absurd assertion that climate science is “controversial.”
Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)
Last week, the Daily Poster broke the news about Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s familial ties to a major oil company involved in a landmark climate case that is suddenly before the Supreme Court. Now, Barrett is explicitly refusing to commit to recusing herself from cases involving oil companies — while depicting widely accepted climate science as “controversial.”
The new statements from Barrett came in response to written questions from Democratic senators, which followed the Daily Poster’s original reporting.
As a lower-court judge, Barrett had previously recused herself from cases involving Shell Oil, because her father worked there as a top attorney for decades. He also served in a top position at the American Petroleum Institute (API), one of the fossil fuel industry’s top lobbying groups, but she never included that organization in her recusal list.
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