Supreme Court permits Trump’s “indefensible” Department of Education purge

The U S Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to proceed with mass firings in the U S Department of Instruction on Monday In an unsigned order the conservative high court struck a lower-court ruling that had paused the president s plan The majority did not explain its decision but Justices Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented In the dissent Sotomayor called the actions indefensible and a critical blow to the powers given to Congress by the Constitution 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 Unable to join in this misuse of our urgency docket I respectfully dissent Sotomayor wrote Development Department Secretary Linda McMahon praised the Court s ruling as a major win for students and families The U S Department of Development will now deliver on its mandate to restore excellence in American learning We will carry out the reduction in force to promote efficiency and accountability and to ensure tools are directed where they matter largest part to students parents and teachers McMahon wrote McMahon communicated Fox News that the ruling was a real triumph for the future of American instruction Related How our citizens schools are tied to the wellbeing of our democracy U S District Judge Myong Joun issued an injunction against Trump s executive order that would dismantle the Teaching Department in May The record abundantly reveals that the defendants true intention is to effectively dismantle the department without an authorizing statute Joun wrote It s the latest mastery for the conservative high court which has already issued a slew of decisions that benefit the Trump administration Last week the Court permitted the administration to continue mass firings at federal agencies In June the Court allowed third country deportations meaning foreigners could be deported to countries other than their own Also in June SCOTUS paved the way for Trump s administration to restrict birthright citizenship When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law and then executes on that promise it is the Judiciary s duty to check that lawlessness not expedite it Sotomayor wrote on Monday Read more about Trump s attacks on coaching No future voting process is going to fix the trouble Trump s war on teaching is worse than it looks All-out betrayal Trump halts nearly billion in federal funding for schools Trump may want to close the Department of Instruction but for now he s exploiting its power The post Supreme Court permits Trump s indefensible Department of Tuition purge appeared first on Salon com