{"id":1993,"date":"2010-06-23T02:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2010-06-23T02:54:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T09:54:55","slug":"gop-judge-has-deep-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/gop-judge-has-deep-pockets\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Judge Has Deep Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronald Reagan appointed some of the best judges money can buy\u2026 and in this case, has.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23judge\"<\/a> Today, Judge Martin Feldman<\/a>, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, sided with a drilling company which had argued that the Obama administration\u2019s blanket, 6-month moratorium<\/a> on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was illegal. The drilling company, Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, LA, claimed financial distress from the imposition of the moratorium. In the ruling handed down this afternoon, Judge Feldman agreed, writing that the administration made an \u201carbitrary and capricious<\/a>\u201d decision that would have an \u201cimmeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country.\u201d Like many judges presiding in the Gulf region, Feldman owns lots of energy stocks, including Transocean, Halliburton, and two of BP\u2019s largest U.S. private shareholders \u2014 BlackRock (7.1%) and JP Morgan Chase (28.3%)<\/strong>. Here\u2019s a list of Feldman\u2019s income in 2008<\/a> (amounts listed unless under $1,000):<\/p>\n

BlackRock ($12000- $36000)<\/p>\n

Ocean Energy ($1000 \u2013 $2500)<\/p>\n

NGP Capital Resources ($1000 \u2013 $2500)<\/p>\n

Quicksilver Resources ($5000 \u2013 $15000)<\/p>\n

Hercules Offshore ($6000 \u2013 $17500)<\/p>\n

Provident Energy<\/p>\n

Peabody Energy<\/p>\n

PenGrowth Energy<\/p>\n

RPC Inc<\/p>\n

Atlas Energy Resources<\/p>\n

Parker Drilling<\/p>\n

TXCO Resources<\/p>\n

EV Energy Partners<\/p>\n

Rowan Companies<\/p>\n

BPZ Resources<\/p>\n

El Paso Corp<\/p>\n

KBR Inc<\/p>\n

Chesapeake Energy<\/p>\n

ATP Oil & Gas<\/p>\n

In his opinion today, Feldman wrote, \u201cOil and gas production is quite simply elemental<\/a> to Gulf communities.\u201d\u2026[emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Rachel Maddow\u2019s take on it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s portfolio could be the subject of a new book: Who\u2019s Who in Cheney\u2019s Office<\/u>?  Why didn\u2019t he recuse  himself?  I think I know.  He\u2019s just a run of the mill, average, greedy, ideologue, corrupt, activist Republican judge.<\/font><\/p>\n

The administration is appealing, and Salazar is rewriting the order.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronald Reagan appointed some of the best judges money can buy\u2026 and in this case, has. Today, Judge Martin Feldman, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, sided with a drilling company which had argued that the Obama administration\u2019s blanket, 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico was […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}