New Orleans Federal Judge Holds Obama Administration In Contempt For Violating Order On Offshore Drilling

The Examiner reports that "Not only is the Obama Administration ignoring a federal judge on its signature health care law, it appears to be defying another court order. On Thursday, Judge Martin Feldman held the Obama Administration in contempt of court for refusing to obey an order lifting the Gulf drilling moratorium."

According to a report at Bloomberg:

The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, a New Orleans judge ruled.

Interior Department regulators acted with “determined disregard” by lifting and reinstituting a series of policy changes that restricted offshore drilling, following the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, U.S. District Judge, Martin Feldman of New Orleans ruled yesterday.

“Each step the government took following the court’s imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance,” Feldman said in the ruling.

“Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the re- imposition 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,” Feldman said.

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