PT1st’s Gene Schaerr on Your Stake in the Speech Rights of an Oil Company

​The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case, Suncor v. Boulder, in which the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, seek to punish fossil fuel companies for presenting contrarian views on climate change.

This should trouble anyone who cares about open debate, including people who angrily disagree with the energy company defendants.

Boulder is trying to compel everyone to agree with only one side of a public issue, violating the First Amendment. Worse, allowing lawyers to act as national moderators would stifle science. Remember when the theory that the COVID-19 virus was artificial was considered so outlandish, and even racist, that it had to be suppressed on social media? That stiff-arming approach to a critical question lasted until the Biden-era CIA and FBI concluded that an artificial origin for the virus was the likeliest explanation.
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In this Washington Examiner article, PT1st General Counsel Gene Schaerr describes our brief asking the Supreme Court to recognize the danger arising from devastating financial penalties meant to force ideological or scientific conformity.

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