DC Circuit Strikes Down Bid to Hide Records re Donor-provided ‘Staff’
Court orders House to brief whether the Congress, Speaker, and Oversight Committee are immune from public scrutiny
Committee use of donor-provided ‘staff’ to drive “year-long investigation” — apparently (see UPDATE, below) later handed over to plaintiffs’ bar — at issue
See here, here, here, here, here and/or here for the fascinating backstory behind this suit, and the weaponization of a congressional “climate” investigation launched at political opponents.
“The brief marks the first time that documents obtained through a 14-months-long congressional investigation into Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP’s climate disinformation have been cited in a climate accountability lawsuit. It also details new revelations about Shell’s internal knowledge of climate change risks in the 1970s and 80s that were first reported by DeSmog earlier this month. “