The State of Louisiana, along with other States where the oil and gas industry holds enormous power, has sued the United States Government which has limited or even refused to issue permits to export Liquefied Natural Gas.
Louisiana and the other liquefied natural gas-producing States have sued to assert their God-given right to export LNG or liquefied natural gas. Their lawsuit is Louisiana v. Biden (W.D. La. No. 2:24-cv-00406). The complaint is too long and not important enough to link here.
A review of the Public Access to (Federal) Courts Electronic Records or "PACER," reveals what the popular press has not yet reported: The Judge assigned to the case in the Western District of Louisiana is the Hon. James D. Cain Jr. He was appointed as a federal judge during the American Holocaust in 2019. Lawsuits like this one are usually filed in one-judge divisions of federal courts in Texas, but this one has been filed in Louisiana. You see, when a federal lawsuit is filed in a division with one judge in it, the chances are 100% that you know what judge will be assigned to your case. They get to pick their own judge.
The interesting and unanswered, so-far-unasked question is how so many judges appointed during the American Holocaust got assignments to one-judge divisions. Perhaps journalists and the news media in general can ask that question, and perhaps they can get answers. I will list some below that can perhaps get answers.
Oh, and a review of the website of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana reveals that only one of its Divisions, the Lake Charles Division as it happens, has only one judge: Judge Cain. All the other Divisions have an active sitting judge and a Senior Judge available, except Lake Charles, which has only Judge Cain. Truly no coincidence, when you want to file a lawsuit to assert your God-given right to export liquefied natural gas but the United States is standing in the way, for now.
For more on the American Holocaust and how its effects are still with us every day, see UNELECTED TEXAS JUDGES, THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST, AND MINORITY RULE, published on Insurance Claims and Issues Blog on March 9, 2024.
So, no coincidence that Judge James D. Cain Jr. was assigned to this LNG exportation lawsuit. Moreover, Judge Cain has his own track record of ruling against the United States in similar cases.
I am now going to mention the names of people and outlets who have the capacity to answer these questions if they want to. If I left a tweet on X-which-used-to-be-Twitter, I guess they might find a tweet but so would the trolls most likely and I do not want that. I do not know whether these people will pay attention to blogs like this one, but I am going to try. Maybe they will seek out their names since they are in a business where their name recognition is so important to them.
I am not completely sure of how to bring this article to their attention, so I am going to mention their names here in the body of this article as well as in the metadata accompanying it. Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Susanne Craig, David Barstow, Russ Buettner, Andrew Weissmann, Will Bunch, Scott Maxwell, Jackie Calmes, LZ Granderson, Karen Tumulty, Julie K. Brown, David Dayen, New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jamie Raskin, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Talking Points Memo, ProPublica, Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Jackie Calmes, Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times, and Slate.
Thank you in advance, one and all.
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