Posted on 07/14/2025 12:54:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to resume efforts to dismantle the Department of Education in an apparent 6-3 vote along ideological lines, lifting a judge’s order to reinstate employees terminated in mass layoffs.
The administration’s victory enables the president to move closer to fulfilling of one of his major campaign promises to oversee the elimination of the the Education Department, which was created in the 1970s.
The majority did not explain their reasoning, as is typical in emergency decisions. The court’s three Democratic-appointed justices publicly dissented, calling their colleagues’ ruling “indefensible.”
“It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave,” they continued.
Since entering office, the administration has sought to lay off half of the Education Department’s workforce and move some of the agency’s core functions, such as managing student loans, to other federal departments.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun blocked those efforts in May. Ruling that Trump needed congressional authorization, Joun ordered the administration reinstate the roughly 1,400 workers laid off in March.
The Supreme Court’s ruling lifts Joun’s injunction as the litigation proceeds in the lower courts, but it is not a final decision. The dispute could return to the justices.
It marks the latest Trump administration victory at the Supreme Court, which has regularly intervened on its emergency docket to rein in lower judges who have blocked the president’s initiatives.
Days earlier, the justices enabled the administration to resume planning large-scale layoffs across a wider swath of the federal bureaucracy.
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Tin foil hat here: I wonder if the whole Epstein thing is “somehow” swaying the SCOTUS’ recent voting record. Roberts been encouraged to be behave or else?
He's been pretty reliable lately. It does not sound like him.
———g WOOT.
Sometimes I read FR just to laugh.
Who on the center right of the Court wants to side with any decision along with an obvious retard like KJB? She is the worst thing that could happened to the socialists Democrats party as far as the USSC is concerned.
The reason they left the lower court to continue was to give the case a chance to mature. After they have piled up a couple hundred reams of paper on each side, they can make a ruling that will have precedence.
Given the composition of SCOTUS at the moment, it is likely that the administration will prevail.
Don’t we have any American judges?
“ Born
Myong Jin Joun (전명진)
1971 (age 53–54)
Seoul, South Korea”
I really do not think that promise will be kept.
The Department of Education will survive Trump. They are actively making moves that are counter to the kinds of moves you would expect with an entity you want to kick to the curb.
There’s a lot of nonsense on FR; but this thread also has a lot of good thought posted.
This is good news!!
Hahahahahahaha! Great post! I am going to bed with a grin on my face after that one...:)
Another chance for the 3 Blind Mice to weigh in…..
Carter, I hope you are spinning.
Fire em ALL
Every state in the union has a Department of Ed.
Why?
Because its clearly not about education, is it...
Indoctrination
Gots to instill the party line in these minds of mush.
I wish there were more than 4,400 DOE employees to $hit can. But those 4,400 have a huge budget.
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