The Supreme Court allowed President Trump on Monday To resume efforts to reduce the Ministry of Education In an obvious 6-3 vote from an ideological point of view, Correcting of the command of a judge Put hundreds of employees who have been terminated in mass decisions.
The administration’s victory enables the president to promise the fulfillment of one of his main campaigns to monitor the elimination of the educational department founded in the 1970s.
The majority did not explain their reasoning how it is typical of emergency decisions. The three democratically appointed judges of the court published publicly and described the decision of the colleagues as “not justifiable”.
“The executive has the power to lift statutes by releasing all the necessary to perform them,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor, together with the Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“The majority are either deliberately blind to the effects of their decision or naive, but one way or another the threat to separate powers of our constitution is serious,” she continued.
Since entering the office, the administration has tried to take half of the workforce in the educational department and to move some of the agency’s core functions, such as the management of student loans, to other federal departments.
US district judge Myong Joun blocked These efforts in May. Joun decided that Trump needed the approval of the congress and ordered that the administration had set up the around 1,400 workers released in March.
The judgment of the Supreme Court increases Junun’s injunction if the legal dispute sounds in front of the lower courts, but it is not a final decision. The dispute could return to the judges.
After the decision, the Minister of Education Linda McMahon swore to carry out the layoffs again.
“While today’s judgment is a significant victory for students and families, it is a shame that the highest court in the country had to enter to allow President Trump to promote the reforms that the Americans have decided to provide the authorities granted by the US constitution,” said McMahon in a statement.
It is the recent victory of the Trump administration at the Supreme Court, which regularly intervened in the emergency docking to contain lower judges that blocked the initiatives of the President.
Days earlier, the administration judges enabled the planning to be resumed again Large layoffs About a wider part of the German Bundesbureaucracy.
The High Court made it possible for Trump to quickly deport migrants Countries in which you have no tiesProvision of employees of the state efficiency department Access to social insurance data and revoke fleeting legal status for Hundreds of thousands of migrantsAmong other things, guidelines.
And the High Court once before the full control of Joun, a representative of the former President Biden, in another case against the administration Re -hiring of 65 million US dollars In Federal Personnel Development grants.
The Attorney General D. John Sauer described Joun’s recent decision as the “WRESTING of an entire cabinet department from presidential control”.
Sauer realized that the educational department can only be completely eliminated by the congress, but he claimed that Trump had acted in his authority and pointed out that all legally prescribed obligations of the department would be continued.
“The Ministry of Education has found that it can carry out its legally prescribed functions with a staff that are switched off and that many discretion functions are better left to the states,” wrote Sauer in court files.
“This is a typical decision on the administration of internal functions for executive industry and the federal employee who reserves the constitution solely of the constitution,” he continued.
The coalitions separated by the plaintiffs from democratically guided countries, school districts and unions argument that it was impossible for the department to carry out its mandatory functions with the changes that were made to the agency.
“The petents cannot avoid the limits of the congress for their authority by ending half of the agency, including entire teams that are dedicated to legal functions. This complaint exceeds the appropriate role of the executive,” the states wrote in court files.
The administration also argued that the plaintiffs have no legal status to sue and would have to raise their claims to a state board, not in front of a federal district judge.
The administration can continue to push these arguments if the case returns to the 1st US Court of Appeal, which still hears the appeal by the administration against Junun’s injunction in the normal course.
It could ultimately return to the Supreme Court.
Skye Perryman, President of Democracy Forward, a left -wing legal group that represents the school districts and unions for lawsuits, condemned the lack of explanation of the majority and swore in this case.
“On his shadow docket, the court again decided to cancel the decision of two courts available without reasoning,” said Perryman in an explanation.
“Although this is disappointing, the measures of the Trump Vance administration to decimate a department set up by the congress is still unconstitutional. No court in the nation-not once the Supreme Court Hat found that what the administration does is lawful,” she continued.
Regardless of this, the goal of completely abolishing the department will probably remain unfounded because there would be difficulties to maintain the votes in the house and in the Senate, although both are controlled by Republicans.
Updated at 4:23 p.m. Edt
This story has been updated to reflect the case that returns to the 1st US Court of Appeal.
