Yep - I’m with you on this up to a point.
So your reasoning is that the Executive Branch setting arbitrary limits shouldn’t be allowed. Would it be okay for Congress to set such arbitrary limits?
It’s not my reasoning as I’m trying to follow his. If I understand it correctly the law was written by congress to prevent just such interference - in favor of or striking against - from the white house. The judge ended up striking it not on constitutional grounds but as administrative law.
Let me rush to say that I’m not a lawyer. I could easily be misunderstanding his reasoning.