BREAKING news, John:
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled with the Trump administration in an emergency appeal, allowing them to conduct mass firings at the U.S. Department of Education while legal challenges continue to play out.
Donald Trump campaigned on dismantling the Education Department, and the Supreme Court just gave him the green light to do it, despite lower courts' insistence that the administration was overstepping its executive authority.
Now, nearly 1,400 federal employees at the Department are out of a job, unable to carry out the federal education programs and services that Congress approved and countless students depend on. Sorry, children of America.
None of the six conservative justices explained their decision, which is usually customary in emergency decisions like this, but we should all heed the warning in Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing dissent:
"When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it… The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way, the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave."
While this emergency ruling is a setback, our Constitution and the rule of law can still prevail — but we need to keep up the pressure to hold Trump and his far-right administration accountable.
— Demand Justice PAC
