Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down Biden’s Oil and Gas Leasing Ban

A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking President Joe Biden’s ban on new federal oil and gas leases. Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other…

IJR SyndicatedJun 16, 20212 min read

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Injunctions remain a contentious topic, as they were used 19 times to stop actions by the Obama administration and 55 times against the Trump administration.

The debate centers around the fact that a single judge has the power to impact Federal Government policy as a whole.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2018, an example of the former president’s lasting influence in the American judicial system.

Trump frequently touted his appointment of hundreds of federal judges, as well as Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.

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Pausing federal Oil and gas leases was a key part of Biden’s plan to transition to renewable Energy without waiting for the industry to make changes on its own.

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“You don’t want to be sitting there with a lot of stranded assets. You’re gonna wind up on the wrong side of this battle,” Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry warned the fossil fuel industry at a conference in March, CNN reported.

“They ought to be figuring out how do we become not an Oil and gas company, but how do we become an Energy company,” he added.

Biden and his allies have expressed no interest in working with the Oil and gas industry, only against it.

Halting Oil and gas leases without a clear plan to replace the jobs it sacrifices is a surefire way to cripple local and state economies.

Doughty’s decision to grant the injunction was completely justified, as Biden’s reckless executive action threatened American Energy independence in service of a radical climate agenda.

There is a way to work toward a solid and realistic environmental policy: cooperating with the free market. But it might take a legal muzzle on the White House for that to happen.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.