The Biden administration has lost another green energy agenda battle after a federal judge blocked the president’s effort to restrict oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Late Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction after the administration’s last-minute attempt to halt an upcoming offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf, Fox News Digital reported. …

Cain also said he viewed the Biden administration’s actions as an attempt to “provide scientific justification to a political reassessment of offshore drilling.” He also said the administration’s behavior looked “more like a weaponization of the Endangered Species Act than the collaborative, reasoned approach prescribed by the applicable laws and regulations.”

[It’s a good step in the right direction, but a temporary one. And Judge Cain is correct — this IS a weaponization of the regulatory state, an approach that Biden has enthusiastically embraced in order to rule as an authoritarian rather than govern under the rule of law. — Ed]