The Obama administration will immediately appeal a federal judge’s decision to strike down its six-month moratorium on offshore drilling.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration would appeal a decision by a district court judge granting an injunction against President Barack Obama’s temporary ban on deepwater offshore drilling.
“We will immediately appeal to the Fifth Circuit,” Gibbs said at the tail end of his daily briefing with reporters.
“Continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened does not make any sense,” Gibbs added.
Not that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals isn’t stacked against the administration or anything.
Martin Feldman player Igor in Young Frankenstein. A different man with the same name is a Reagan-appointed judge who serves on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He ruled:
The administration’s decision to ban drilling was likely “arbitrary and capricious” and would do “irreparable harm” to companies and individuals’ livelihoods…
Now, we’ll see what the Fifth Circuit has to say.
