The Trump Administration asked the United States Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to proceed with dismantling the Department of Education. School policy would then be in the hands of the States and local boards. The Justice Department asked the court to halt District Judge Myong Joun’s May 22nd ruling that ordered the administration to reinstate employees terminated in a mass layoff and end further actions to shutter the department.
President Trump is trying to put education back in local and state hands.
Joun is Boston-based and a far-left Biden-appointed judge.
The Justice Department argues that the lower court lacked jurisdiction to second guess the executives internal management decisions.
“The government has been crystal clear in acknowledging that only Congress can eliminate the Department of Education. And the government has acknowledged the need to retain sufficient staff to continue fulfilling statutorily mandated functions and has kept the personnel that, in its judgment, are necessary for those tasks. The challenged (reduction in force) is fully consistent with that approach,” the filing said.
The Education Department provides federal grants, spreads money around, redistributes wealth, and promotes programs that they like but rarely funds them. It’s basically been a behemoth of un-subsidized mandates since it was founded by Jimmy Carter. It also oversees student loans. However you don’t need a huge monolith to do that.
President Trump and his administration want to downsize and reshape the federal bureaucracy which is way out of control.
Attorneys General from 20 states, DC, and teachers unions sued to block the administration’s effort. It’s a bit of a slush fund and power base for Democrats and radical left indoctrination. I was in Albany when they were cutting US history and writing left-wing curricula.
Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, announced plans on March 11th to carry out a mass termination of employees. Trump on March 21st announced plans to transfer the department’s student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration, and its special education programs to nutrition and related services in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Judge Joun decided that the cuts weren’t to make the programs more efficient or better and he would run the government instead of Trump.
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Although returning education policy and administration back to the states sounds like a good idea, I shudder to think of the many ways evildoers in my state (Washington) would use such control to twist, torment, indoctrinate and mutilate schoolchildren.
How about MOVE, I would. I wouldn’t live in that leftists HELLHOLE if you PAID ME. Stationed there in the U.S. Navy in the early 80’s when it was nice, when back in the early 2000’s for IT Training WHAT A DUMP!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, but that’s one state, not wrecking the entire country like the DOE has been doing. Further, more power is in the hands of local voters who may be motivated to get rid of some of the evil people and practices they’ve been plagued with in their schools.
Why? Trump already has this power. To “ask SCOTUS” is to deny the Constitutiinal powers of the Executive Branch, upending the balance of power, not upholding the constitution, and disempowering governance of, by, and for the people as their ELECTED representative to carry out the people’s mandates. The three branches are separate and EQUAL, which means SCOTUS has ZERO authority… Read more »
It seems outrageously absurd for the chief executive to ask unelected judges for permission to do what he is clearly authorized to do by the constitution, but these renegades in robes have been grabbing power they do not possess and getting away with it. Whatever happened to ‘separation of powers’? Every time Trump defers to these self aggrandizing crooks, he… Read more »
Trump is playing 4D Chess with the Supremes. He knows he has the power against the out-of-control judiciary; he is trying to get the Supremes to say so without out-and-out telling them all to go to hell!