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🗓️ 1 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
0:04.0 | So today, we're going to talk about Trump being sued by the youth. |
0:10.0 | 22 Americans, some as young as 7 years old, and all under the age of 25, have filed against Trump. |
0:19.0 | They're saying the administration's moves to remove environmental |
0:22.8 | protections and roll back climate change efforts. Specifically, they're going after executive orders |
0:29.6 | 14156, 14154 and 14261, and 14261, and saying Trump is deliberately worsening the situation. The suit names a list of |
0:42.2 | defendants that includes Trump, the U.S., the EPA, the departments of interior, energy, and |
0:49.7 | transportation, and more. 19-year-old Eva Lightheiser, one of the plaintiffs, said, quote, |
0:57.9 | Trump's fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation. I'm not suing because I want to. |
1:04.8 | I'm suing because I have to. My health, my future, and my right to speak the truth are all on the line. |
1:12.6 | He's waging war on us with fossil fuels as his weapon, and we're fighting back with the Constitution. |
1:20.2 | Eva was a plaintiff in the Held v. Montana lawsuit. |
1:24.7 | The other plaintiffs not only vary in age, but also location. They come from |
1:30.0 | California, Florida, Hawaii, Montana, and Oregon. An interesting bit about the case is that it |
1:38.5 | doesn't seem to be arguing about the technicalities or legalities of Trump undertaking certain actions in accordance with |
1:46.3 | federal law. It looks like they're basing the case on unalienable rights and those enumerated |
1:53.8 | in the Constitution. I know a lot of people are going to roll their eyes at going that route. |
2:00.2 | A lot of people want to see a case that says |
2:02.9 | Trump can't roll back specific rule X because of law Y. That's for the states to file. It's important |
2:10.3 | to remember, as people might criticize the route, that this is exactly how they won held |
2:16.8 | versus Montana. |
2:18.6 | They applied this same tactic to the state constitution. |
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