It was a got damn stunt, offc

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 hours ago

    has no basis in law

    Wikipedia says, with a couple references:

    The president may grant a one-time extension of the divestiture deadline by as long as 90 days if a path to a qualified divestiture has been identified, “significant” progress has been made to executing the divestiture, and legally binding agreements for facilitating the divestiture are in place.

    So I think he can do it.

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      13 hours ago

      as long as 90 days if a path to a qualified divestiture has been identified, “significant” progress has been made to executing the divestiture, and legally binding agreements for facilitating the divestiture are in place.

      My point is that no path has been identified, no progress has been made, and nothing is in place.

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        13 hours ago

        Point taken, but I’m just going to presume that all that will be declared satisfied in the EO in some token form or another.

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          13 hours ago

          I don’t think that it can just be declared satisfied, though. I imagine Google and Apple’s obscenely top-shelf representation will be like, “this has about this much legal merit”:

          But who knows! :)