"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 confronted with obvious violations of legal procedures."
"Obey the Trump regime, and you get money flowing to you. The problem is that political bribery is illegal. Any college that signs this agreement and takes this illicit money will be vulnerable to retaliation. It's not enough to sign the compact: You have to enforce it against your own students, faculty and staff. And colleges would no longer have the power to enforce their own rules."
The Trump administration is expanding a Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education and offering it to all colleges. The Compact aims to legalize actions described as grotesquely illegal and unconstitutional by converting them into contractual obligations. The administration intends to use signed contracts to deter judicial review. The Compact functions as political bribery by conditioning federal funds on compliance. Colleges that accept such payments risk illegal inducements and potential retaliation. Signatories must enforce the Compact against their own communities and would lose authority to apply institutional rules. Federal payments would be treated as advances subject to repayment if any violation is found, creating coercive financial leverage.
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