Crossfiled12 outlets · filed 4 October 2026
New Supreme Court term begins with justices stumped by climate change case
The justices heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, seeking to hold Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy liable for the impacts of climate change.
ABC News
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NBC News alone frames the story around Democrats’ expectation that they would not fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump, while the Washington Post instead centers Susan Collins and her 2018 Kavanaugh vote as a reelection issue. The two do not converge on the same angle in the headlines or extracts, and the Post’s coverage appears only to mention the vacancy through that broader Collins lens.
Written by Crossfiled from the 21 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.
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