{"id":66278,"date":"2025-07-15T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66278\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:23:09","slug":"supreme-court-allows-trump-to-resume-education-department-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66278\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court allows Trump to resume Education Department layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court<\/a> is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track \u2014 and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.<\/p>\n

With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court on Monday paused an order from U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs and calling into question the broader plan. The layoffs \u201cwill likely cripple the department,\u201d Joun wrote. A federal appeals court refused to put the order on hold while the administration appealed. <\/p>\n

The high court action enables the administration to resume work on winding down the department, one of Trump\u2019s biggest campaign promises. <\/p>\n

In a post Monday night on his social media platform, Trump said the high court \u201chas handed a Major Victory to Parents and Students across the Country.\u201d He said the decision will allow his administration to begin the \u201cvery important process\u201d of returning many of the department\u2019s functions \u201cBACK TO THE STATES.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court did not explain its decision in favor of Trump, as is customary in emergency appeals. But in dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained that her colleagues were enabling legally questionable action on the part of the administration. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary\u2019s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it,\u201d Sotomayor wrote for herself and Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan.<\/p>\n

The secretary of education lauds the decision<\/p>\n

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said it\u2019s a \u201cshame\u201d it took the Supreme Court\u2019s intervention to let Trump\u2019s plan move ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious: the President of the United States, as the head of the Executive Branch, has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of federal agencies,\u201d McMahon said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for the Massachusetts cities and education groups that sued over the plan said the lawsuit will continue, adding no court has yet ruled that what the administration wants to do is legal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout explaining to the American people its reasoning, a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have dealt a devastating blow to this nation\u2019s promise of public education for all children. On its shadow docket, the Court has yet again ruled to overturn the decision of two lower courts without argument,\u201d Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has handed Trump one victory after another in his effort to remake the federal government, after lower courts have found the administration\u2019s actions probably violate federal law. Last week, the justices cleared the way for Trump\u2019s plan to significantly reduce the size of the federal workforce. On the education front, the high court has previously allowed cuts in teacher-training grants to go forward.<\/p>\n

Separately on Monday, more than 20 states sued the administration over billions of dollars in frozen education funding<\/a> for after-school care, summer programs and more.<\/p>\n

Education Department employees are on leave<\/p>\n

Education Department employees who were targeted by the layoffs have been on paid leave since March, according to a union that represents some of the agency\u2019s staff. <\/p>\n

Joun\u2019s order had prevented the department from fully terminating them, though none had been allowed to return to work, according to the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252. Without Joun\u2019s order, the workers would have been terminated in early June.<\/p>\n

The Education Department had said earlier in June that it was \u201cactively assessing how to reintegrate\u201d the employees. A department email asked them to share whether they had gained other employment, saying the request was meant to \u201csupport a smooth and informed return to duty.\u201d<\/p>\n

The current case involves two consolidated lawsuits that said Trump\u2019s plan amounted to an illegal closure of the Education Department.<\/p>\n

One suit was filed by the Somerville and Easthampton school districts in Massachusetts along with the American Federation of Teachers and other education groups. The other legal action was filed by a coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general.<\/p>\n

The suits argued that layoffs left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education<\/a>, distribute financial aid<\/a> and enforce civil rights laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2731,356,84,69,407,4934,18881,57,2055,63,336,362,17845,2736,2739,50,80,10416,369,17850,47027,67,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-66278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-district-of-columbia","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-education-funding","15":"tag-elena-kagan","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-government-and-politics","18":"tag-jobs-and-careers","19":"tag-lawsuits","20":"tag-legal-proceedings","21":"tag-linda-mcmahon","22":"tag-ma-state-wire","23":"tag-massachusetts","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-sonia-sotomayor","27":"tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","28":"tag-u-s-department-of-education","29":"tag-u-s-supreme-court","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114854638746189466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}