U.S. Supreme Court gives Trump green light to dismantle Education Department

On the 14th, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an injunction issued by a federal district judge, giving the green light to the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education. Among the nine justices of the Supreme Court, three liberal justices opposed the veto of the injunction. Among them, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting legal opinion: “When the executive branch publicly announces its intention to violate the law and puts it into practice, the judicial branch’s responsibility is to stop, not accelerate, such illegal behavior.” On May 22 this year, a federal district judge in Boston, Massachusetts issued an injunction requiring the Trump administration to stop implementing plans to lay off about 1,400 people in the Department of Education and not to transfer the functions of the Department of Education to other departments. On June 4, the Federal First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston rejected the Trump administration’s request to suspend the injunction. The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, saying that federal district judges “have no right to interfere with administrative decisions.” The U.S. Department of Education implemented a large-scale layoff plan on March 11, and it is expected to lay off about 1,400 of its 4,000 employees. On the 20th of the same month, Trump signed an executive order at the White House, requiring Secretary of Education McMahon to take all necessary measures to promote the closure of the Department of Education and return education management rights to the states. Senate Minority Leader and Democrat Schumer said that trying to dissolve the Department of Education is one of Trump’s “most destructive” and “most devastating”