The authority that they want is to not push this forward into a higher court where you could end up with a precedent that they can t fight down the road. there s some awareness of that because this is this is one pandemic. this is covid-19. it s probably not going to be the last pandemic. it may not even be the last significant wave of this pandemic. and so not just from a legal perspective but also from just a persuasion perspective. they have to maintain their ability to say to americans, please do this for your safety and for the safety of others. and if they can t do that any longer, that s why the mask mandate was probably going to go away anyway, they need to roll those things back so that when they need to roll them forward when it matters they still have the authority to do that. and if that s the case shouldn t they have just said we re going to let this one go? it was going to expire anyway? as opposed to if the cdc wants us to appeal, we ll think about