Posted on 06/21/2010 12:30:06 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has spent weeks throwing political punches at the Obama administration’s six-month freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling, alleging it will wreak havoc on the region’s already battered economy.
Now, Jindal is battling the moratorium in the courtroom, too.
Jindal and state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell on Sunday filed a legal brief in support of a Louisiana-based offshore services company that’s asking a federal judge to lift the ban.
The ban is “effectively turning an environmental disaster into an economic catastrophe for the state,” the brief alleges.
The ban is in place while the administration and a White House-created independent commission review drilling safety in the wake of the BP oil spill.
Jindal’s brief — filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana — alleges the Interior Department “completely ignored” the effect the ban will have on Louisiana’s economy.
Offshore oil-and-gas is a $3 billion annual industry in the state, the brief claims, noting the salaries of rig workers, the scores of companies that have boat, food and other types of contracts, and many other ways the state's economy is tethered to drilling.
The brief claims that once deepwater rigs move out of the Gulf, they will become tied up as companies make long-term commitments for projects in Brazil, Africa and elsewhere.
“Having to wait an additional year or more for available rigs will turn the short-term adverse effects of the moratorium into a long-term economic disaster for Louisiana,” their filing states.
The brief supports a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Hornbeck Offshore Services, which alleges the ban violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Jindal is raising his own claims, too. The brief cites language in the offshore statute that calls for federal officials to work with states in making decisions about development policy in federal waters.
“Inasmuch as the State of Louisiana was completely ignored by Defendants in the establishment of the moratorium for alleged safety reasons, the question arises whether that failure renders Defendants’ action invalid,” the brief states.
A friend of mine who is from Louisiana says you do NOT mention the name Obama there. They are fit to be tied.
ML/NJ
This could be a good platform from which Jindal could re-introduce himself on the national stage. It might even prod him to run in ‘12.
Texas needs to join in on the suit. It’s destroying Texas as well. Mississippi?
Panel Is Unlikely to End Deepwater Drilling Ban Early ( RE: Deepwater Horizon oilspill)
Everyone who wants Jindal for President should inquire whether his parents were citizens before he was born. I think he’s a tremendously talented guy, but I’m not sure whether he qualifies as a Natural Boarn Citizen.
Then, neither does Obama.
Oh come on. I’m sure they still love him in the Katrinavilles.
Obama will run from any court action. Any suit will involve testimony from those seven engineers whose recommendations were wrongfully used to justify the moratorium. Under oath thay would testify that the moratorium was catastophic and the govt’s wrongful use of their names and reputations is criminal.
He was born here in the USA. Doesn’t that make him a natural born citizen ?
I thought the fact that you were born on US SOIL regardless of the citizenship status of your parents makes you a CITIZEN.
Here is the entry from Wikipedia :
“Piyush Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Amar and Raj Jindal, who came to the United States as immigrants from India”
This from the NEW YORK TIMES:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/world/americas/22iht-22louisiana.7991675.html?_r=1
Piyush Jindal was born on June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge to Hindu parents who had come to the United States six months before so his mother could pursue a graduate degree in nuclear physics at Louisiana State University. His father was an engineer from the Punjab region of India, the only one of nine siblings to attend high school. The younger Jindal, growing up in Baton Rouge, was not expected to come home from school with anything less than 100 on tests. Public high school in Baton Rouge was followed by Brown, where Jindal was Phi Beta Kappa, and a conversion to Roman Catholicism that Jindal has described in transformative terms. “I draw my definition of integrity from my Christian faith,” Jindal said during the campaign. “In my faith, you give 100 percent of yourself to God.”
afraidfortherepublic:
As a Louisiana resident and Jindal supporter [I have voted for him twice], I can confirm that he was born in Baton Rouge in 1971. His parents were immigrants from India, became naturalized citizens and Jindal was born and raised here in Baton Rouge before attending Brown in the Ivy League and then later I think he went to Oxford.
afraidfortherepublic:
As a Louisiana resident and Jindal supporter [I have voted for him twice], I can confirm that he was born in Baton Rouge in 1971. His parents were immigrants from India, became naturalized citizens and Jindal was born and raised here in Baton Rouge before attending Brown in the Ivy League and then later I think he went to Oxford.
Yes (and I support Jindal too) but was he born BEFORE, or AFTER, his parents became citizens. It makes a difference, according to our Constitution (but who pays attention to that anymore? Certainly not the crooks in the WH now.)
No, courts have determined that the definition of “natural born citizen” means that you are born on US soil to parents who are citizens. This was written so that the President would not have allegience to any country, except the USA. The Presidency is the ONLY office with that qualification. There is an exception for people born overseas whose parents were citizens stationed overseas (military, ambassadors, etc.)
In case you are wondering, this means that OBAMA is NOT eligible to be President — no matter where he was born — because his father was not a US citizen. But, everybody seems to be ignoring that fact.
The Constitution is just shredded and trampled by the gang in DC.
This was blatant dishonesty by the administration, on an Orwellian scale.
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