SEC Climate Proposal Violates First Amendment to Constitution: Law Professor

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) proposed rules to mandate climate-related disclosures from companies abridge freedom of speech and would “create controversy by imposing a political viewpoint,” a law professor asserted in a June 1 letter to the agency.
“It’s almost as though the three commissioners who pushed this rule forward don’t take seriously their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution,” said Sean Griffith, a professor at Fordham University School of Law and author of the letter, in a June 3 interview with The Epoch Times.
Griffith had previously joined many other law and finance professors in an April 25 letter to SEC objecting to the agency’s March 25 climate disclosure proposal….

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