U. Va. Finds a Spine 0
It submits its petition to void Attorney General Cuccinelli’s global warming attempt to intimidate those with whom he disagrees subpoena.
“Investigating the merits of a university researcher’s methodology, results and conclusions (on climate change or any topic) goes far beyond the Attorney General’s limited statutory power,” the 10-page petition reads.
Anti-fraud laws, it adds, don’t “authorize the Attorney General to engage in scientific debate or advance the Commonwealth’s positions in unrelated litigation about federal environmental policy and regulation,” an apparent allusion to Cuccinelli’s separate legal challenge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s position on the harmful e ffects of greenhouse gases.
It should be fun to follow this through the courts.
