A reinterpretation of the law is not responsible for Biden’s change of heart. What changed is that the president’s most intolerant allies now insist that he acquiesces, and he obliged.

This is not new.

Biden was similarly persuaded by hard-left legal theorists when he wanted to preserve the pandemic-inspired moratorium on evictions. …

Is the profane left-wing of the Democrat Party, representing a true fringe of America, powerful enough to routinely convince Biden to subordinate his legal judgment to whatever they obsess about at the moment? Or is the president buckling to peer pressure?