Federal legislators wrote a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week outlining concerns surrounding the state of California making climate agreements with the Chinese Communist Party.

U.S. Senators Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, and U.S. Representative Young Kim wrote, “We write to urge the Department of Justice, in consultation with the Department of State, to open a formal investigation into whether signed agreements and other institutionalized engagements between the State of California, including its regulatory agencies and the University of California (UC) system, and organs and entities of the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China’s dominant political institution, constitute agreements or compacts with a foreign power prohibited by, or requiring congressional consent under, Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution, and whether they unlawfully intrude on the President’s conduct of foreign policy.”

The group highlighted a report that Governors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom “tied California’s climate regulators to Beijing’s Party-State, embedded PRC-linked institutions inside the state’s regulatory apparatus.” The letter continued. “Article I, Section 10 prohibits any state from entering any ‘Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation’ and bars any ‘Agreement or Compact’ with a foreign power absent congressional consent. Chief Justice Taney, writing for a plurality, explained that the Framers chose the broadest possible words in order ‘to cut off all connection or communication between a state and a foreign power.'”

As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…

• For discernment for federal legislators as they assess the potential infringements on Executive Branch authority by state governors.
• For wisdom for Attorney General Blanche and Secretary Rubio as they consider the requested investigation.
• For the president and all his Cabinet officials to seek the Lord’s direction in their actions and decisions.