Reagan Judges block Obama stay on new oil wells

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-oil-spill-moratorium-20100709,0,4393206.story

This is why we need to keep Obama as President and control of Congress because all these judges from the Federal Bench
on up to the Supreme Court can really fuck things up.

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"Davis and Smith, appointees of President Reagan, represented major oil and gas industry interests during their years in private
practice, according to a report released Thursday by the Alliance for Justice."

Appeals court says no to Obama drilling moratorium

Reporting from New Orleans and Los Angeles — A federal appeals court Thursday rejected the Obama administration's request to keep a six-
month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in place while it mounts a legal defense of the ban.

The decision, issued shortly after the three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a crowded New Orleans
courtroom, was a second blow to one of the administration's key responses to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and massive spill.

Attorneys for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had urged the panel to leave the ban in effect while the administration appeals a lower court's rejection
of the moratorium. The ban had halted exploratory drilling at 33 well sites in waters deeper than 500 feet.

But the panel, in a 2-1 decision, said the administration had failed to show there would be "irreparable harm" if work resumed on the approved well sites
in the Gulf of Mexico.