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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by scarface74 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:09PM (#23837931)
That isn’t very reassuring. He shouldn’t have had the power to unilaterally make this decision in the first place. While the legislature might have not passed a law that overrode his decision. I doubt they would have passed a law saying it was permissible.
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by atonse on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:24PM (#23840522)
The executive branch has the power to execute laws and regulations. I think what they're doing here is choosing to execute a law/regulation that they should've waived due to the pandemic.

That's why it's not necessarily an overreach, but instead just an inhumane choice to not take special circumstances into account when choosing to execute a particular regulation.

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