Carrie Campbell Severino

Liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor's repeated questions concerning whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a high-profile climate case that could expose oil companies to lawsuits across the country steered conservative lawyers to believe that the liberal justices are seeking an off-ramp.

"The fact that they kept going back to trying to create a jurisdictional problem tells me they don't feel confident they have the votes in this space," Carrie Severino, president of JCN, a conservative judicial group, told Fox News.

Jackson and Sotomayor were looking for an escape hatch.

The Supreme Court began its new term on Monday hearing its first oral arguments for Suncor versus Boulder, in which they will rule on whether state tort laws can be used to seek damages from oil companies for climate change, even when the alleged harms are occurring outside of the state or continent.

I think the chief justice really put his finger on it when he pointed out the reason you're seeing these specific type of claims is because the parties here want to get at emissions.

Carrie Severino is president of the Judicial Crisis Network.

They want to effectively impose a carbon tax, and some of the litigants have said that that's what they would rather do, but they can't do that because federal law governs emissions standards.

Uh, there's the Clean Air Act.

The feminine position was to say, how can you talk about rules of evidence? Can't you see she's crying? Now, to be clear, many women were revolted by the way the Kavanaugh hearings played out.

In fact, the very best book on the Kavanaugh hearings was written by two women, Molly Hemingway and Kerry Severino.

But a political system in which men predominate will tend to operate according to rules of facts and objectivity.

and one in which women predominate will tend to operate by the rules of emotions and subjective facts, even if there are individual men and women who fall on the opposite side of those camps.