A Republican state attorney general who successfully pushed an arm of the federal court system to scrub a climate science chapter from a judicial manual has been appointed to its fundraising board.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) was appointed last week to the board of the Federal Judicial Center Foundation, at the recommendation of Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), in his capacity as Senate president pro tempore. The board accepts gifts and donations to the Federal Judicial Center, which provides research and training for federal judges and staff.
Bird was one of 27 attorneys general who asked the center in January to remove the climate science section from a judicial education manual published in December. The legal officers accused the authors of siding with efforts to hold oil and gas companies financially responsible for climate change.
A week later, Bird joined a letter with 21 colleagues, asking House and Senate lawmakers to investigate — and potentially defund — the judicial education body.
