It is not so much that the Obama administration differs with the law, but that it considers itself above it — even above the Constitution.

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The Obama administration’s trouble with the courts has continued with a judge’s ruling last week that the Interior Department’s reinstating of a drilling moratorium followed by a de facto moratorium via an overly restrictive permitting process constituted contempt.

Feldman was not amused. “Each step the government took following the court’s imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance,” the judge said in his ruling. “Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second moratorium . .. provides this court with clear and convincing evidence of its contempt.”

Feldman even accused the administration of outright lying, pointing out that “at the hearing on the first moratorium, in response to a question by the court, the government’s answer then was wholly at odds with the story of the misleading text change by a White House official, a story the government does not now dispute.”

The moratorium is driven by ideology and not safety. Its purpose was to further the administration’s war on domestic energy production, including a seven-year ban on offshore drilling off both coasts and the eastern Gulf.

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