Supreme Court allows Trump to resume Education Department layoffs

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.

by firing all those necessary to carry them out,

So now the Wise Latina knows better than the Executive Branch how many government drones are "necessary" to carry out legislation? What if he fired one person? Would the court get to review that? What about 100? What number is the correct number to avoid judicial review of personnel decisions?

RE: In 2022, Flint appointed 562 poll workers.

Only 57 were Republicans.

The questioning of vote fraud and improper counting of questionable write-in and absentee ballots without verification led to “Our well conducted honest election was supervised by bipartisan citizens who gave of their time and effort to assure us the votes were all valid.”

And they taped printed newspaper sheets across all the windows in the building as the votes were counted. Absurd excuse? “What if someone looked inside the windows and saw the private home address and identity of the voters on the ballots?”

"There’s a lot of nonsense on FR; but this thread also has a lot of good thought posted."

Yes it did.

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