Posted on 06/06/2025 7:42:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his plan to dismantle the agency.
The Justice Department’s emergency appeal to the high court said U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston exceeded his authority last month when he issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs of nearly 1,400 people and putting the broader plan on hold.
Joun’s order has blocked one of the Republican president’s biggest campaign promises and effectively stalled the effort to wind down the department. A federal appeals court refused to put the order on hold while the administration appealed.
The judge wrote that the layoffs “will likely cripple the department.”
But Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on Friday that Joun was substituting his policy preferences for those of the Trump administration.
The layoffs help put in the place the “policy of streamlining the department and eliminating discretionary functions that, in the administration’s view, are better left to the states,” Sauer wrote.
He also pointed out that the Supreme Court in April voted 5-4 to block Joun’s earlier order seeking to keep in place Education Department teacher-training grants.
The current case involves two consolidated lawsuits that said Trump’s plan amounted to an illegal closure of the Education Department.
One suit was filed by the Somerville and Easthampton school districts in Massachusetts along with the American Federation of Teachers and other education groups. The other suit was filed by a coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general.
The suits argued that layoffs left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce civil rights laws.
Education Department employees who were targeted by the layoffs have...
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Yes. Make sure you ask the unelected morons for permission to do your job. Weaklings.
Mother may I?
Supreme Court: why should the elected leader of the Executive Branch believe he can oversee and decide on policies concerning his Department of Education?
Does he have delusions of grandeur that suddenly he’s as powerful as a judge?
On this one? There is a part of me that actually hopes the courts do what they have been doing.
We need Trump to pressure Congress heavily to pass a bill abolishing the DoEd by 100%. Trump’s executive order has to some extent been counter-intuitive.
As it stands today, the President in 2028 is just going to hire new people for it. The Department of Education is not dead and gone.
The difference between God and district judge is, God does not think he is a district judge.
The new budget should have slashed the funding for the Education Department.
It will pass on party lines, may as well go for it.
Judge MYOUNG JOUN???? Where are these foreign judges coming from!!
Why should the President of the United States ask those intellectually and morally mediocre "justices" for permission to do anything? Answer: he should not!
Any authority to do so is assumed. It is not granted by the US Constitution.
I voted for President Trump.
I did not vote for the Supreme Court morons--nor would I.
Their problem is that they're drunk on power and are too stupid to understand it. That's hubris, the begetter of tragedy.
Not even the SC which at least is mentioned in the Constitution. This is some lower court flunkies created by Congress. So a congressional bureaucracy is exercising power over the executive and the executive bends over, takes it and says thank you.
What a pathetic, factual incorrect, ignorant statement.
Wrong.
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