NBC News: Justice Alito pushes back on calls to sit out a major Supreme Court climate case
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This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on May 15, 2026.
The case, set to be argued and decided in the court’s next term, which starts in October, concerns an attempt by energy companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to throw out a lawsuit in Colorado seeking damages for harms related to climate change.
Alito’s decision not to recuse himself in the case is “undermining public confidence in the impartiality of the court,” liberal groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity and the Alliance for Justice, wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee.