This isn’t making enough news.

Cities and states are suing oil companies, alleging they knew about climate dangers and hid them. Those cases go before federal judges.

Meanwhile, a center at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law has been hosting expense-paid seminars for those same federal judges.

Who funds the center?

ExxonMobil, the Charles Koch Foundation, and others connected to the very companies being sued.

The center even told a funder its goal was giving judges “skepticism” about the science behind the lawsuits they hear.

Who spoke at these closed-door seminars? Chris Wright, then a fracking CEO, now Trump’s Energy Secretary, sharing his skepticism about climate change. His own company was suing the government over climate rules at the time.

So, imagine you’re a referee in a championship game. Before the game, one of the teams pays for you to attend a fancy retreat where their coach explains why the other team’s strategy is illegitimate. Would anyone trust your calls?

That’s essentially what’s happening here.