Would have known that what would come out before the ruling was made .... his holdings in oil exploration and drilling companies, along with his holdings in entities specifically involved int the suit (Transocean and Halliburton)?
He’d be a pretty piss-poor judge if he didn’t. Judges have to file a Financial Disclosure statement every year for just this reason - transparency about conflict of interest. That’s why Judicial Watch has them all on file for you and I to examine.
Since Feldman must have known this would happen, it may be that he expects it to be struck down rapidly. But he gets to be extremely popular in the state of Louisiana even if it is.
But then I’m a cynic as well as a skeptic.
P{ersonally, considering we have not seen anything but a summary of his activities as a judge, I think I posted a link in one of my earlier posts, that he has a very interesting lecturers schedule, mentioning a bunch of things which, if he was younger, might put him on the radar for a conservative Presidents to nominate him for the “big bench” (SCOTUS)...
That’s my initial, knee-jerk assessment...
You know...Bottom line...I don’t fault someone for going out and making money...Yes, the investments could very well influence, or cause a conflict of interest...But like I was illuding to, could there have bene another judge Jindal could have tapped to do this, and they all have sat down and looked for potential “conflicts of interest” before setting off in that direction???
This just looks like such an obvious thing, to have overlooked as a potential stumbling block to our side of the argument...