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by gadders 2309 days ago
It's not whataboutism. I am demonstrating that two politically opposed administrations came to the same decision. This implies that the basis of the decision may not be campaign contributions.
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I agree... I upvoted your reply as you have a legitimate question there.
> It's not whataboutism. I am demonstrating that two politically opposed administrations came to the same decision.

Except you didn't actually demonstrate that, since they involve different appeals which did not present the exact same questions to the Court.

To demonstrate what you are trying to demonstrate you need to look at the two petitions and the briefs submitted by the two administrations, and see how much the two administrations agreed on whatever questions, if any, were common to the two petitions.