KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Protests were conducted nationwide this weekend over what some are calling the “Trial of the Century”.
21-youngsters filed suit in 2015 claiming the Government’s position on climate change threatens their Constitutional rights to life, liberty and property.
One of those protests was held under the shelter of the Rotary Stage in Bronson Park on a rainy and cold Sunday afternoon in Kalamazoo.
The 21-named in the suit are backed up by a national organization of teens, who are now young adults, and several of them spoke Sunday in Bronson Park.
A hearing had been scheduled for Monday, but the Justice Department has secured a temporary stay from the Supreme Court, claiming it would do irreparable harm to the government if they lost the case.
It’s just the latest in a series of unusual challenges that the White House has used to delay the process during the Trump Administration.
WMU Criminal Justice Professor Ron Kramer doesn’t think they have an argument, and every previous attempt to block the suit has failed, but he says with the new make-up of the Supreme Court you can never be sure.
