Posted on 06/22/2010 10:48:05 AM PDT by pabianice
Yep - Holder is sharpening his pencil. This one will be right behind the brief to pronounce war on AZ.
Thank goodness.....but the MSM have been telling us for days that this judge would NOT overturn this policy....I notice MSNBC has not even reported it yet.
UP YOURS, OBAMA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woah woah woah we can’t get garbage like that get in the way of the plans of our benevolent dictator.
You got it right....AND I thibnk it may be an impeachable offense....
Each and every congress person could have personally shaken down EVERY oil company over this one.
Oil companies begging - hat in hand - to legislators would have been humiliation - only avoided by large donations to dems to help "change" the laws.
New Orleans-based U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman
Feldman, Martin Leach-Cross
Born 1934 in St. Louis, MO
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1983, to a seat vacated by Jack M. Gordon; Confirmed by the Senate on October 4, 1983, and received commission on October 5, 1983.
Education:
Tulane University, B.A., 1955
Tulane Law School, J.D., 1957
Professional Career:
U.S. Army Reserve Captain, JAG Corps, 1957-1963
Law clerk, Hon. John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 1957-1959
Private practice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1959-1983
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Thanks for this. There’s a lot here our charming affirmative-action Executive Branch trainee apparently didn’t take into consideration.
Finally. THE RULE OF LAW.
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled against the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a blow to the White House which had hoped the ban would provide time to ensure other wells are operating safely.
A lawsuit was filed by Louisiana-based Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC and was joined by more than a dozen companies involved in offshore drilling operations to reverse the drilling ban imposed by the U.S. Department of Interior.
A federal judge in Louisiana granted the drillers’ request for a preliminary restraining order that would prevent the ban from taking effect.
(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, Editing by Sandra Maler)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65L4UI20100622
WOOT!
Smackdown!!!!
Not to worry. His minions in the EPA and other enviro nuts will appeal to the 9th circus.
After reviewing the Secretary's Report [Salazar Report], the Moratorium Memorandum, and the Notice to Lessees, the Court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium. ...If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are? Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing. ...
The Court cannot substitute its judgment for that of the agency, but the agency must “cogently explain why it has exercised its discretion in a given manner.†State Farm, 463 U.S. at 48. It has not done so. FN12
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FN12: Of interest to the Court is the Report's conflicting observation that while "the rate of blowouts per well has not increased . . . the experience of the BP Oil Spill illustrates the significant challenges in deepwater drilling."...On the record now before the Court, the defendants have failed to cogently reflect the decision to issue a blanket, generic, indeed punitive, moratorium with the facts developed during the thirty-day review. The plaintiffs have established a likelihood of successfully showing that the Administration acted arbitrarily and capriciously in issuing the moratorium.
HALLELUJAH!!!
Breaking News: Judge Blocks Obama’s 6-Month Offshore Drilling Moratorium
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Judge blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium
A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_oil_spill_20100616040303
Thank you, President Reagan!!
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Martin Feldman
From Judgepedia
Martin Leach-Cross Feldman is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He joined the court in 1983 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
Early life and education
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Feldman graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana with his Bachelor’s degree in 1955 and his Juris Doctor degree in 1957.[1]
Professional career
* U.S. Army Reserve Captain, JAG Corps, 1957-1963
* Law clerk, Hon. John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 1957-1959
* Private practice, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1959-1983 [1]
Federal judicial career
Feldman was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by President Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1983 to a seat vacated by Jack Gordon. Feldman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 4, 1983 on a Senate vote and received commission on October 5, 1983.[1]
http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Martin_Feldman
I thought the trust fund will have THIS trustee extortion was a spearation of powers issue.
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