The Trump administration is now expanding its “ Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education ” by offering it to all colleges, hoping to find college administrators gullible enough to sign a contract that threatens to destroy academic freedom as we know it.

The many flaws of the compact have been explained by numerous commenters.

The purpose of the compact is to legalize the illegal. What the Trump regime is proposing in its demands is both grotesquely illegal and unconstitutional, so they want to strengthen their position by convincing some suckers to sign a contract allowing these illegal things. By turning an unconstitutional action into a contractual obligation, the Trump administration wants to give the right-wing Supreme Court an excuse for looking the other way when c

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