I’ve been arguing for years that Boeing and Lockmart should be forced to divest, because a free-range ULA would be much more able to compete with SpaceX (and other potential competitors).
I’m guessing that Boeing has decided that it needs cash more than it needs to continue to keep Tory under control.
“Herein lies a lesson: A huge number of people have decided that there are a cadre of people who are so vile that any opinion they touch is immediately toxified beyond investigation. Claims are not to be evaluated on their own merits; instead, we can simply determine whether a claim ought to be supported based on those who posit it. This helps to explain why political crossover has become nearly impossible: We’re not judging the claims of our opponents; we’re judging each other. And this means that we can discard any argument simply by dint of the fact that we don’t like the person offering it. “
This was so blatantly and obviously unconstitutional that even Pelosi said it was (at least initially). I’m cynical enough to suspect that they knew they had no hope of winning, but did this to rile up the base to again demand packing of the court.