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Judge Holds Interior Dept. in Contempt Over Ban (Gulf drilling moratorium)
AP / ABC ^
| 2/2/11
| MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Posted on 02/02/2011 6:54:47 PM PST by coaltrain
The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill held the Interior Department in contempt Wednesday, and ordered the federal agency to pay attorneys' fees for several offshore oil companies.
"Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government's contempt of this court's preliminary injunction order," he wrote.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bp; drilling; energy; gulf; obama; oil; oilspill; palin
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Looking forward to the contempt ruling against Obama for continue to implement Obamacare now that it was ruled unconstitutional.
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:54:55 PM PST
by
coaltrain
To: coaltrain
Inching ever closer to a constitutional crisis.
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:56:47 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(I am proclaiming 2011 as the year of ME!)
To: coaltrain
Egypt, Egypt, Egypt..........
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:57:52 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Memo to Mitt Romney: Just go away.............)
To: steelyourfaith; ForGod'sSake
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:58:35 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: coaltrain
When the libs lose the judges, they have REALLY overstepped the boundaries.
Get judges to legislate from the bench — that feeds to their egos. Flip them off by blatantly ignoring their rulings — that attacks their egos.
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:58:38 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
To: coaltrain
This Nazi regime doesn’t care about the courts unless the courts agree with them.
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:58:57 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
To: coaltrain
YAY! People with balls STANDING UP! Gotta Love it!
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:59:24 PM PST
by
acapesket
To: coaltrain
Contempt?
Usually when someone is found in contempt of court they’re put in prison for a little while.
Perhaps the Secretary of the Interior — Ken Salazar — should be jailed?
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:00:11 PM PST
by
TexasGreg
("Democrats Piss Me Off"M)
To: coaltrain; Fractal Trader; FrPR; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; ...
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:00:11 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
To: coaltrain
Cue the Hitler in his Bunker video.
To: Army Air Corps
Thanx ! This is huge.
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:01:54 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
To: coaltrain
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:03:21 PM PST
by
GlockThe Vote
(Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:03:41 PM PST
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Inching ever closer to a constitutional crisis. This could become very interesting. Even more interesting than some 20 year old twit giving out Oval Office BJs.
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:04:27 PM PST
by
Ditto
(Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
To: coaltrain
TGO was hot on Obama’s disregard for the rule of law...this all is going to come to a big crisis IMO ....the Vinson ruling essentially means that Obamacare is illegal and should stop in its entirety now.
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:05:36 PM PST
by
databoss
To: thackney
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:07:19 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: coaltrain
Can I be the first to say that i am developing a man-crush on Judge Visnon?
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:07:23 PM PST
by
The_Sword_of_Groo
(<=== Proudly resides in occupied Georgia)
To: coaltrain
To: gov_bean_ counter
inching? Obama is running full sprint towards it. No other admin since Andrew Jackson has defied the Federal court in this fashion.
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:08:41 PM PST
by
unseen1
To: coaltrain
Cool!! A string of judicial losses for 0-boy and Co.
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posted on
02/02/2011 7:13:56 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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