Orange Tsunami: Count the ships. Count the barrels. Count those bounced.

Eight months after forecasts of an intractable war with Iran, every prediction has failed: the oil spike was speculation while America never ran short, the Navy cleared the Strait of Hormuz without an escorted ship being hit, directed-energy weapons broke the cheap-drone math, the regime is a leaderless residual structure with no nuclear bomb, the post-midterm agreement will only record what has already been done, and with deportations nearing one million at home, the call is to unleash the orange vote on November 3.

Suncor Energy Inc. v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of Boulder County

(1) Whether federal law precludes state-law claims for injuries allegedly caused by interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions; and (2) whether the Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear the case (question added by the Court).

Boulder County and the City of Boulder sued fossil-fuel producers in Colorado state court (2018) for state-law torts — nuisance, trespass, unjust enrichment, conspiracy — over climate harms. State courts rejected the defendants' preemption defenses. The Court granted cert and directed briefing on its own jurisdiction.

Could decide whether the dozens of state and municipal climate-damages suits against energy companies are preempted by federal law — potentially dispositive for the entire wave of climate litigation.