When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) isn’t using Confucius Institutes to infiltrate U.S. academia, conducting surveillance with spy balloons, using aircraft to map sensitive sites, attempting to purchase land near critical infrastructure through shell companies, they use environmentalists to influence and even bribe judges.

An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to promote favorable info and litigation updates regarding climate issues – until the email-styled group chat was abruptly made private, Fox News Digital found.

The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) was founded in 2018 by a left-wing environmental nonprofit, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and pitches itself as a “first-of-its-kind effort” that “provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law.”

As it turns out, over a dozen judges communicating via emails and group chats with CCP-supported climate groups to explore creative legal strategies to obstruct the Trump administration’s energy policies. Senator Ted Cruz revealed this during a hearing of a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing late last month entitled: Enter the Dragon—China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance.

The entire hearing can be watched here.