Discussion for article #227180
The ghost of Ronnie Raygun continues to haunt us.
He sure knew how to pick 'em.
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LOLOLouisiana. Fucking backwoods dbags.
Now SCrOTUS can take it and Kennedy can finish what he started.
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He’s a classy judge.
Real classy.
From Judgepedia:
Judge Feldman blocked a six-month moratorium that the Obama administration placed on new deep-water drilling projects in response to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Feldman ruled that the Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoning for the moratorium, implying that disallowing all deep-water drilling was overzealous.[3]
The Department of the Interior immediately planned to appeal the decision to the Fifth Circuit.[4] In October 2010, however, the Obama administration lifted the moratorium on deep-water drilling.[5]
After the ruling by Feldman, his investments and stocks were analyzed, showing that in 2009 he held stocks of companies affected by his ruling. Judge Feldman insisted that he found out about these holdings on June 21 and contacted his broker to sell them on the morning of June 22. According to the The Wall Street Journal, “Under federal law, federal judges are prohibited from deciding cases in which they have financial interests in the parties or the outcome of the case. They are also prohibited from deciding cases in which there is the appearance of a conflict.”[6] Because of the questions surrounding the status of his financial holdings, environmental groups asked that Feldman recuse himself from the case and suspend his ruling.[7][8]
Expressing continued frustration with the Obama Administrations reluctance to open up off shore drilling, Feldman ordered the Obama Administration to decide on five pending deep sea drilling permits within 30 days or be held in contempt of court. Feldman stated in his ruling, “The plaintiff’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico are threatened with endless disability. As the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster draws near, any reason that would have justified delays has, under a rule of reason, expired.”[9]
emphasis mine.
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Well, upon initial review, the only thing I have to say is, “WTF! Are there no functioning typewriters in Louisiana, or perhaps a decent word processor?” The chopped up lettering renders the ruling nearly unreadable, not that I needed to get the gist … the “vibrancy” of state rights trumping those evil feds breathing down our neck.
I can only imagine what the faithful judge would have written about slavery back in the day.
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Many states have democratically chosen to give women the right to vote. But until recent years, women voting had no place at all in this nation’s history and tradition.
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Same thing occured to me. Or we could replace that with “not having slaves” or “giving American-Americans the right to vote” or “not keeping whites and ‘coloreds’ separate.” It’s not a particularly sound legal basis, is what I’m getting at here.
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Say buh-bye, Beej
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Would that be the one authored by Jefferson where he took out all references to Jesus?
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Either your comment is snark, or you show extreme ignorance. I’m hoping it is snark, because any US citizen should know that this nation was in no way founded on the Bible.
Yes, people have religious freedom, but your religious freedom ends where my individual right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness begins.
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Of course, America was not in any way founded on the Bible, Beej—but you knew that.
Say goodbye.
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It’s not snark—it’s Beej.
He’ll be gone soon.
Again.
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Whuzzamatta, Beej? That cute Muslim guy at the Quickie-Stop turn you down for a date?
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Founded on the Bible, eh?
Well, if that’s true, considering that almost all of OT law is missing from the Constitution - in fact, the 8th amendment would very specifically prohibit much OT law from being on the books here (stoning a disobedient child, for example), the Founders did a piss poor job of it.
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Just “a bump in the road”. 
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STATes RIGHTS to enACT biGOTed LAWS THROUgh the DEMoCRATic proCESS. THAT is THE MeanING of DEmoCRACY. LIBRULS are agaiNSt DEMOCRACY and STates RIGHTS!!1!1!1!one!!!`11!!!
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Someone should tell Feldman that the Supreme Court has ruled—at least 14 times since 1883—that marriage is a right.
And our rights are not subject to a popular vote, nor are they subject to being taken away from us because bigots and their religions don’t like it.
That’s why we call them rights.
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Now you’re freaking us out, Eustace. When snark is indistinguishable from actual Teadouchery, how far can GunJesustan be?
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TPM: [Judge Feldman] wrote, “Many states have democratically chosen to recognize same-sex marriage. But until recent years, it had no place at all in this nation’s history and tradition.”
Nor did bans of it.
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The nation was founded on the principle of separation of church and state - we never lost our way - you have . You have no right to impose your 14th century mythology on me and the God that I believe in would be appalled at the self righteousness of this arcane Reagan flunky -
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