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Opinion | Climate activists are infiltrating the federal courts

The Washington Post · last updated

William P. Barr served as U.S. attorney general from 1991 to 1993 and 2019 to 2020. His law firm represents energy clients.

A federal judge without a PhD in environmental chemistry hasn’t always been out of luck. For years he might have turned to the Federal Judicial Center, the research and educational arm of the federal courts, and its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Prepared jointly with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the manual is supposed to be a “dispassionate guide” to scientific disputes. The document has served a bedrock principle of our legal system: that judges are impartial and must receive unbiased assistance when navigating technical matters.

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