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Former Attorneys General Bill Barr, Michael Mukasey, Jeff Sessions, and John Ashcroft sent a letter to Federal Judicial Center Director Judge Robin Rosenberg criticizing the chapter in the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
The Federal Judiciary Center removed the chapter after critics called out how it cited the research of climate activists who at the same time advocated for climate litigation against oil companies, presenting a serious windfall of attorney's fees. A coalition of Democrats say the decision came under political pressure, which undermines its neutrality. So they’re pressuring the FJC to add it back.
More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center.