SOME 16,000 faculty teach in Virginia colleges, and a goodly number of them get state research grants. But Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli directed his office's investigative power against only one--a leading proponent of manmade global-warming theory, an idea anathema to the American right from whose loins the A.G. springs. Now Mr. Cuccinelli's ideological crusade is over.
The state Supreme Court on Friday called off his hunt for fraud in the old emails of climate scientist Michael Mann. The A.G. tried to subpoena those messages from the University of Virginia, a former employer of Mr. Mann, father of the "hockey stick" model of climate change. That model describes a sharp rise in planetary warming coincident with the late industrial age.
A lower court had ruled against Mr. Cuccinelli because it said he had no firm cause to suspect Mr. Mann of wrongdoing. The High Court rejected the A.G.'s appeal on the ground that he lacked authority to litigate as he did against a state entity. Whatever the reasoning, the outcome is welcome.
Politics these days is played tit-for-tat. Mr. Cuccinelli took politics into a new domain, threatening to make academia a political war zone whose collateral damage would include honest scholarship. The word for such an instinct is totalitarian. Conservatives should be last people to go there. The court wisely ruled that, in Virginia, neither they nor anyone else soon will.
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