Trump can reduce progressives to tantrum-like fits – Here’s how they are using the courts to get revenge

If you are a conservative, one of the fun things about Donald Trump’s presidency is watching liberals lose their minds over how much they loathe him.

From media elites to members of Congress, progressives are often reduced to tantrum-like fits because they are so frustrated by living in the shadows of this establishment-busting, government-shrinking rebel of a president.

But some liberals still have power. And they’ll use it however they can to push back against President Trump’s agenda, even if it means rewriting or expanding laws through the courts, using lawsuits as a tool.

Like the mayors who create sanctuary cities in an attempt to make immigration law what they want it to be, state and local elected officials across the country are now employing a tactic known as “regulation through litigation” to push back against one of President Trump’s greatest economic accomplishments: deregulation.

Here’s how it works: Liberals think it is government’s role to make a lot of rules and they don’t think the Trump administration is doing a good job at that. So they are trying to make the rules themselves by suing private companies in order to make those businesses behave themselves.

For example, last month New York City sued five oil and natural gas companies for causing climate change that is “injuring New York City.”

Similar lawsuits have been filed by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California, and by several parishes in Louisiana, claiming the activities of energy companies are responsible for coastal erosion.

Source :- foxnews