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Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan, suggested that the Yale finding was motivated by the almost certain fear by Trump administration officials that there's at least a substantial likelihood that come January, they won't be here. So they want to put facts on the ground, to try them in a potential Biden administration.