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 $165 million in frozen education funds intended for nearly all of the state’s school systems and charter schools and several nonprofit groups.
The administration has canceled billions of dollars in federal education grants nationwide since February. Several states have sued, but North Carolina had not yet done so when it comes to education funds.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, who announced the state’s role in the lawsuit Monday, said the cuts could result in the elimination of about 1,000 North Carolina education jobs.
Are those jobs necessary? Who are the nonprofit groups? Is the money treated as a slush fund for Democrat supporters and elected officials?
A White House spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The federal Office of Management and Budget has previously cited issues with the way at least some grants were spent as the reason for the delay, while the office reviews the entire funding programs.
“This is an ongoing programmatic review of education funding,” the office previously said in a statement. “Initial findings show that many of these grant programs have been grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda” that helps unauthorized immigrant students, among other things.
Reviewing the funding, digging into where the money is going, is not something Democrats want.
Supreme Court declares President Trump may continue ‘Presidentin’.
And seditious commiecrats keep whinin’.
What a country!
Bwaha! Lolgf Losers!
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
Mr Teach went to Blaine Academy one of THE most expensive prep schools in the USA
Current tuition costs are, boarding school 78000$ day $55000
For his education no federal assistance was needed.
Really filled with elites !
Thanks johnnie boy. Take your meds.
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.
DoD spends $2 BILLION annually on marching bands. Maybe that function could transfer to the DED. If the government thinks ceremonial and entertainment “troops” are important to the national government, no need to keep them in DoD pretending to be military.
While there are laws to prevent certain types of “Impoudment”, they can probably be gotten around as Congress usually funds things in large, general buckets. They (typically) aren’t saying “You shall fund 10,000 window washers at the Pentagon at $500/hour.” It’s more like “Here’s $11 Billion for salaries or similar costs”. The details are typically left to the Departments & their designated subordinates.
Funny how no one in Congress or the courts said anything about the Trillion dollars of COVID funding that got diverted for other purposes without even a hearing. Federal agencies were still shoveling the COVID funds out the door at the end of the Biden administration as fast as they could shovel it, even though there was clearly no more COVID. Almost as if they and their friends were going to personally profit from that slush fund.
Funny how the Left never raised any objections and no courts issues injunctions to stop the tens of billions of dollars that were diverted from the federal treasury to fund illegal alien resettlement programs during the Biden administration. You think that the same money allocated to handle 10 thousand unaccompanied migrant children can stretch to fund 350K children? That money came from somewhere and congress never voted to fund that.