• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    I know the actual answer here, but why is ok for the White House to demand public universities violate the constitution and withhold federal money if they don’t?

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      Because a law is only a law if someone is willing to enforce it. Otherwise its just meaningless words scribbled on paper.

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      Rule of law is dead because a central tenet of fascism is that “there are those that the laws bind and but do not protect, and those that the law protects but does not bind”