Judge Halts Alaska Reserve Lease Sales

AP ^ | 9/7/6 | JEANNETTE J. LEE

[SmithL]

Well good, I was hoping that gas prices would go up again.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The caribou, moose, and birds have actually flourished since the pipelines were built in Alaska.

Environmentalists are running this nation into the ground.

[Dog Gone]

Who was the judge and who appointed him?

[rodguy911]

yes

[rodguy911]

yes

[rodguy911]

yes

[Cheapskate]

I'm SO stinkin tired of thesde kill America at all cost GREEN-WEENIE dirtbags!!!!

[muawiyah]

ABout 1/4 of the Earth's land surface is given over to the care and feeding of reindeer (caribou) and musk oxen.

How much more do these critters need?

[okie01]

This is what you get when you delegate your energy policy to the activist judiciary and envirowacko pressure groups.

One thing the liberals do really, really well: abuse the justice system.

[xzins]

District Judges should not be permitted to shut down actions of higher constitutional bodies. They should have authority only to forward their concerns to a parallel constitutional body. Only the Supreme Court should have authority to countermand an action of the President or Congress, and that only on Constitutional grounds.

[SmithL]

Singleton, James Keith Jr.

Born 1939 in Oakland, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, District of Alaska
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on January 24, 1990, to a seat vacated by James M. Fitzgerald; Confirmed by the Senate on May 11, 1990, and received commission on May 14, 1990. Served as chief judge, 1995-2002. Assumed senior status on January 27, 2005.

Education:
University of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1961

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, LL.B., 1964

Professional Career:
Private practice, Anchorage, Alaska, 1963, 1965-1970
Judge, Alaska State Superior Court, 1970-1980
Judge, Alaska Court of Appeals, 1980-1990

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

[caisson71]

Who needs Muslim terrorists when we have environmentalists and liberal judges to ruin this country.

[Cicero]

Here's another news story on this judge:

Censored Gay Pride Exhibit at the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska Reinstalled



July 13, 2001

On July 3, 2001, District Judge James K. Singleton ordered Anchorage, Alaska, to reinstall a gay pride exhibit at Z.J. Loussac Library after ruling that the city's library policy was too vague.

The lawsuit arose after the city removed a gay pride display from Loussac Library on June 5, 2001. The Alaska Civil Liberties Union sued, saying the city violated constitutional free speech protections and breached its contract with the exhibit sponsors. The exhibit was put up at the University of Alaska Anchorage after it was removed from Loussac Library.

According to the Anchorage Daily News District Judge James K. Singleton ruled that while the city has the right to limit certain forms of speech at the library, its guidelines were not explicit enough to prevent administrators' prejudices from potentially playing a role in a decision.

Arguments focused partly on whether the library was a public forum and therefore subject to free speech protections. The city argued that, although the library was made available for exhibitions (and was thus a designated public forum), exhibitions policy prohibited displays that were personal, promotional or could cause a substantial disturbance. The city claimed that the gay pride exhibit was promotional because it promoted the group's cause.

Judge Singleton said that it might be possible to define the terms of a library policy in a way that would draw a distinction between promotion and education, but that "that would be something that would be very hard to do and you could look silly."

Whereas commercial promotion would be a clear case, when we are talking about ideas the line distinguishing expression from promotion is extremely vague, if not impossible to draw. By opening its exhibition space to a variety of groups, the only thing the Loussac library was promoting was the value of a diversity of ideas as well as of the mutual understanding between members of the community. No city should find that kind of promotion objectionable.

[Dog Gone]

I know Bush 41 had to get judges approved by a Rat-controlled Senate, but this has to be one of his worst appointments ever. Souter might be worse.

[pointsal]

Let's serv'em up at the Safeway.... Maybe Carl's Jr. can have a muskox burger...

[muawiyah]

Guy knows what he likes anyway, but isn't he getting sort of old for that?

[theBuckwheat]

If you google "manhattan project foreign oil", you will get over 1 million hits. I venture to guess that most of those hits will come from liberals lecturing the public from websites with articles titled, "America's strategic imperative: a "Manhattan project" for energy".

Yadayadayada. What do liberals want? They love it when they can command and control everyone else to "solve" a problem, except when the solution really will be the solution and not just the perception of a solution.

I bet that not a single person whose website was indexed by the above google search finds anything wrong with the judge's ruling. It is all in a day's protection of the earth.

[Ole Okie]

Souter might be worse.

Yo, Dog. You can hardly get one worse than Souter.

"No paper trail" Souter. Turncoat.

[Cobra64]

The caribou, moose, and birds have actually flourished since the pipelines were built in Alaska.

Common knowledge for 20 years. Nothing new about that.

[thackney]

Lets see, we can't drill in ANWR because that land was set aside for wildlife. Now we can't drill in the National Petroleum Reserve because, ..., because, ...., how did that go again?