The United States Supreme Court ruled in an unigned order to allow President Donald Trump to dismantle the US Education Department. (Photo Jane Norman/State Newsroom)
Washington – the United States Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to continue Mass layoffs and plan of a dramatic reduction in the education department Was ordered at the beginning of this year.
The decision from the Supreme Court in the country is a sedate victory for President Donald Trump, who tried to review the federal role in education.
. order He was unsigned, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed, pointing to the decision 6-3.
The task of opposition, by Sotomayor, lasted.
“Most are either intentionally blind to the consequences of his government or naive,” she wrote. “But anyway, the threat to the distribution of power by our constitution is serious.”
The order of the Supreme Court temporarily suspends the orders of lower courts to: forced the agency to restore over 1,300 employees gutted from restrictions or RIF, effort; blocked the department before executing Trump’s executive order to dismantle the department; and forbade the agency to transfer some services to other federal agencies.
On Monday, education secretary Linda McMahon celebrated this decision, saying: “Today the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious: the President of the United States, as the head of the executive department, has the highest power to make decisions regarding staff levels, administrative organization and daily activities of federal agencies.”
“Although today’s ruling is a significant win for students and families, it is a pity that the highest court in the country had to enter the country to allow President Trump to develop reforms that the Americans chose him to provide the use of the authorities granted to him by the US Constitution,” she said.
“The United States Education Department will now give its mandate to restore perfection in American education. We will carry out a limitation to promote performance and responsibility and ensure that the resources are directed where they matter – to students, parents and teachers.”
The coalition of teachers, unions and school districts, which sued Trump’s order to eliminate the department and mass dismissals, stated that “they were incredibly disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Trump administration to continue harmful efforts to break up the Education Department.”
“This unlawful plan will immediately and irreversibly harm students, teachers and communities throughout our country. Children will be among the most injured by this decision. We will never stop fighting on behalf of all students and public schools as well as protection, services and resources that must develop,” they added.
Challenge from democratic ags, relationships
. Coalition of labor and spokesmith And a lot of democratic general lawyers, each of whom sued some of the most consistent educational initiatives of administration in March.
One of the lawsuits comes from the coalition of democratic prosecutors in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Colombia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, New York, New Jersey Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
The second lawsuit was filed by the American Federation of Teachers, its chapter Massachusetts, AFSCME Council 93, American Association of University Professors, the International Union of Service Workers and two school districts in Massachusetts.
The federal judge Massachusetts consolidated the lawsuits and awarded the preliminary order of states and groups in May.
The administration appealed against this decision, leading to the June decision of the US Court of Appeal at the 1st District holding on the spot decision of the District Court.
Then Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court for intervention.
