Opinion: America’s energy independence threatened by “Dark Money” lawfare

December 12, 2025

Left-leaning nonprofits worry the Trump administration is going to commit “lawfare” against them. Whatever one thinks of the administration’s tactics, the concern is ironic because Team Trump didn’t invent lawfare, and the Left has long practiced it, most famously against Trump himself. Amazingly, the federal government even subsidizes an environmental group whose contribution to climate lawfare is to secretly lobby judges destined to rule on that lawfare.

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