We are so used to seeing corporations wilt in the face of SJW scammers that when one steps forward to fight against a contrived leftist-ideologue attack, conservatives need to take note, and cheer. There are few attacks so contrived as the one put together by Democratic state attorneys general (led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts’s Maura Healy) against Exxon, which charges the oil giant with being a climate denier, engaging in an entirely concocted and new and bogus type of criminal law, “climate fraud,” encapsulated by hash-taggers as “#Exxonknew.”

Today we cheer again not only Exxon’s fight, but some welcome legal news. For a more thorough background, I recommend these Rich Lowry and David French pieces, and this NR editorial (and this more recent update from yours truly), but in a nutshell, the AGs have subpoenaed Exxon and conservative organizations (such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute) for records and communications to find climate-denial evidence and slap RICO charges on the corporation. There are two goals. One is to inflict the leftist agenda, First Amendment be damned, on the energy industry. The other is — like the infamous efforts against Chevron — to turn Exxon into an ATM for tree huggers and their investors (yep, investors).

The gloves tossed, Exxon, again, à la Chevron, chose to fight. Claiming the jihad was politically motivated, the company sought to suppress the subpoenas, asking a federal judge to grant a preliminary injunction against Healy’s efforts, and further asking for discovery rights to see all the AG’s communications related to the scheme.

And here comes the welcome legal news: Last week, federal judge Ed Kinkeade, based in Texas, ruled that Exxon could indeed have discovery access to Healy’s escapades, and said “The Court finds the allegations about Attorney General Healey and the anticipatory nature of Attorney General Healey’s remarks about the outcome of the Exxon investigation to be concerning to this Court.”

As they should be. Now, on to New York: This week Exxon filed similar injunction requests with the federal court to invalidate the subpoena issued by AG Schneiderman, who last month took a hit when the New York Post reported that his anti-Exxon effort may be a glorified suck-up to billionaire environmentalist and political activist Tom Steyer, in the hopes of enticing him to bankroll a possible 2018 gubernatorial run by the Bronx Democrat.

The A Team’s Hannibal loved it when a plan came together. Here, we conservatives are loving it when a leftist scheme starts to unravel.​