In the wake of a federal judge issuing a discovery order to determine if Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman acted with “bias or prejudgment” in issuing a subpoena to ExxonMobil, one former Democratic Attorney General has openly admitted this is indeed the case.

At an event held at the Center for American Progress (CAP) this week, keynote speaker Douglas Gansler, the former Attorney General of Maryland, must not have gotten the memo that the #ExxonKnew campaign has been denying they are motivated by politics, because he openly admitted the entire affair is “politically motivated.” Not only that, but he actually said it’s “good politics”! Here’s exactly how he put it:

“The idea that AGs are politically motivated is an old one and a real one. Yes, they’re politically motivated in the sense that they are part of the political process; they have to run for office, they have to do what their constituents ask for, the voters that put them in office ask for, and there is no bigger issue that they ought to be thinking about and working on than climate change. And yes, that’s politically motivated. It’s good politics.”

It may not have been such “good politics” for billionaire activist Tom Steyer who is a major funder of CAP and has spent millions of dollars trying to make climate a key issue in the election. Steyer ended up being the “biggest loser” in the 2016 election season, with the majority of his candidates suffering major defeats.

This revelation by Gansler comes only a few months after a hearing where lawyers representing Healey’s office swore their subpoena was not political. But the federal judge, Ed Kinkeade, wasn’t buying it, saying, “like Al Gore wasn’t frickin’ involved...