Supreme Court Rules Trump Admin Can, In Fact, Fire Education Department Employees

Vox thinks this is the most important decision from the Court so far. They must be upset that the government won’t be funding so many Democrat party supporters. And how so much money won’t be flowing between elected Dems and Dem supporters

The Supreme Court just handed Trump his biggest victory of his second term

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass terminations that, in Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s words, are “the first step on the road to a total shutdown” of the entire department.

The Court’s decision in McMahon v. New York, was handed down on the Court’s “shadow docket,” a mix of emergency motions and other expedited matters that the justices often decide without full briefing or oral argument. As is often the case in shadow docket decisions, none of the Republican justices explained their decision. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent, which was joined by both of her fellow Democratic justices.

Most liberal outlets point out that there is really no explanation without mentioning it being the shadow docket. Sotomayor wrote a silly, unhinged, long dissent.

Technically, the Court’s decision in McMahon is temporary — it permits the Trump administration to fire most of the Education Department’s workers while this lawsuit is still pending in federal court. But it is far from clear how the Education Department could unwind a decision to fire more than half of its over 4,000 employees.

The McMahon decision is particularly unnerving because it suggests that President Donald Trump is allowed to “impound” federal spending — unilaterally refusing to spend money or to continue federal programs that are mandated by an act of Congress. While McMahon does not explicitly authorize impoundment, it allows the Trump administration to fire so many federal workers, in so many key roles, that the practical effect is to cancel entire federal programs.

He could simply send the money to State education departments for their use, rather than running it through the politicized federal ED.

(NBC News) “The United States Supreme Court has handed a Major Victory to Parents and Students across the Country, by declaring the Trump Administration may proceed on returning the functions of the Department of Education BACK TO THE STATES,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Now, with this GREAT Supreme Court Decision, our Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, may begin this very important process.”

Really, he cannot shut it down without Congress eliminating it, but, hey, they could whittle it down to 10 employees. It would still be technically open, just, utterly ineffective.

(WRAL) North Carolina is joining other states in a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over more than $165 million in frozen education funds intended for nearly all of the state’s school systems and charter schools and several nonprofit groups.

The administration has canceled billions of dollars in federal education grants nationwide since February. Several states have sued, but North Carolina had not yet done so when it comes to education funds.

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, who announced the state’s role in the lawsuit Monday, said the cuts could result in the elimination of about 1,000 North Carolina education jobs.

Are those jobs necessary? Who are the nonprofit groups? Is the money treated as a slush fund for Democrat supporters and elected officials?

A White House spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The federal Office of Management and Budget has previously cited issues with the way at least some grants were spent as the reason for the delay, while the office reviews the entire funding programs.

“This is an ongoing programmatic review of education funding,” the office previously said in a statement. “Initial findings show that many of these grant programs have been grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda” that helps unauthorized immigrant students, among other things.

Reviewing the funding, digging into where the money is going, is not something Democrats want.

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