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> It seems like they believe that the Trump Administration is trying to manipulate them into opening prematurely, and that they are very cognizant of this. Yo
by p0llard 6y ago
> It seems like they believe that the Trump Administration is trying to manipulate them into opening prematurely, and that they are very cognizant of this.
You're right, and the court filing addresses this explicitly; see 75) in http://orgchart.mit.edu/sites/default/files/reports/20200708-Harvard-MIT-Complaint-Injunctive-Relief.pdf http://orgchart.mit.edu/sites/default/files/reports/20200708...
- deegles 6y agoOh it gets worse, he's threatening to cut federal funding to schools that don't reopen: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-schools-reopening-federal-funding-352311 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-schools-reope...
- hef19898 6y agoJust imagine, SCOTUS decided that limiting access to voting places is OK during COVID. This means that COVID can legally be used to restrict voting an, presumably, do all kind of wierd things come November. A smart would-be dictator would now use COVID as strategy to win reelection or post-pone the election. Ideally in a way that doesn't result in public uproar. Instead Trump still tries to ignore COVID into oblivion. But as Napoleon said, don't interupt your enemy when he's hurting himself.
- mindslight 6y agoCovid could have been used to win reelection by simply accepting that it was a problem and leading everyone through the challenging time. The wartime president boost. Something else is going on here, like foreign interference (I hadn't bought into this theory before Covid) or neurodegenerative disease.