For many years of my adult life I thought, “courts and judges: who cares?” I’ve learned that I do, big time. Why? Because courts can bend and twist laws and essentially rewrite them to the point that we might as well send legislators home, which in and of itself sounds like a good idea. The danger is the courts are the backstop to protect us from unconstitutional law, and if they are creating law by fiat, there is no backstop. There is no accountability. They have the final say. Energy efficiency impact evaluation is much the same, as evaluators declare…
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