Supreme Court OKs Trump’s plan to dismantle the Education Department

Washington – The Supreme Court gave President Trump on Monday the power to dismantle the education service and to fire around half of its staff.

In a 6-3 decision, the Conservatives of the Court set aside the order of a Boston judge and paved the way to the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to carry out her plans to close a large part of his department.

The court made a brief order without explanation, followed by a dissent of 19 pages of judge Sonia Sotomayor who spoke for the three liberals.

“Only the congress has the power to abolish the department. The task of the executive, on the other hand, is to “be careful that the laws are faithfully executed”, she wrote.

“However, by the executive Fiat, the president ordered the Secretary of Education to” take all the necessary measures to facilitate the closure of the department “… In accordance with this executive decree, secretary Linda McMahon emptied the department’s workforce, pulling more than 50% of its staff overnight. In his own words.

McMahon described the decision to “significant victory for students and families.

The Ministry of Education was created in 1979 under President Carter, and it has been a favorite of Democrats since then. He sends funds to school districts across the country to support additional assistance to students, including those who have disabled, and he administers programs for subsidies and loans for college and universities students.

Republicans are impatient to dismantle the Department of Education for decades. They say that the education policy should be left mainly to the States and says that teachers’ unions have too much influence in Washington.

But they also say that they would not change or block federal funding which will now support schools and students in higher education.

Last week, the court confirmed Trump administration plans for mass layoffs in the more than 20 departments and agencies.

California lawyers and 10 other states led by Democrats had continued to block the planned layoffs of around 1,400 employees in the education department, and they won a federal judge in Boston and the 1st short circuit.

These judges said that the congress could reduce or redirect the financing of the Department of Education, but the president was not free to do so by himself.

But in last week’s prescription as well as that of Monday, the majority of the court was shaved with Trump and his broad vision of executive power.

Trump lawyer general, D. John Sauer, said the administration decided that she could “fulfill his compulsory status with reduced staff” in the education department.

Democracy Forward, a progressive group that continued on behalf of the educators, said that it was “incredibly disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump-Vanced administration to continue its harmful efforts to dismantle the Ministry of Education while our case is advancing. This illegal plan will be immediately and irreparably harm the students, educators and communities of our country.”