In a big victory for free speech, the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, who subpoened ExxonMobil for documents related to climate change, suddenly dropped the action.  Exxon had countersued that the subpoena was unconstitutional. Washington Times: In the Joint Stipulation of Dismissal, Mr. Walker said he would pull his March 15 subpoena of the world’s largest energy company, which had challenged the subpoena as unconstitutional. “After conferring on this matter, the parties mutually agreed that Attorney General Walker will withdraw the subpoena and ExxonMobil will stipulate to the dismissal without prejudice of this action,” said the four-page document filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The decision indicates a dramatic scaling back of Mr. Walker’s climate change investigation, coming just five weeks after he withdrew his subpoena of the free market Competitive Enterprise...(Read Full Post)