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by drecked 120 days ago
Because this makes it harder for future administrations.

As long as this was the court approved status quo (this has been through the Supreme Court before) a future reality based administration could re-implement it.

However, now that they’ve removed it a new administration would have to add this or similar language back which could go through the legal process again (citing changed circumstances or something), allowing the current Supreme Court to knock it down.