Originally posted by Terraceth
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At the time when the Trump administration created this ban, he probably could have gotten his congress to do it through law. Whereas at the current time there isn't a serious chance of it being done by law. I suggest you be a bit less OCD about whether the correct paperwork was done to pass this change in the truly correct way (congress vs government regulator), and consider that at the time when this change was ordered by Trump there was indeed bipartisan interest in doing it, so if the Trump admin wasn't blitheringly incompetent that it filed its paperwork badly, then the congress of that time would have passed it by law. But the congress of this time won't.
I suggest that rather than obsess over whether the change was made in the technically legally correct way, you rather consider questions such as: Was there bipartisan support for making the change at the time it was made? Is the change positive in function? Is reimplementing the change in the technically legally correct way in the present very likely? I suggest the answer to the first two questions is yes, and the third is no, and that hence that striking down the change is an exercise in OCD that is harmful to America in effect.
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