July 15th, 2025. Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower

court's order that the Trump administration could not got the Department of Education

while the issue was in the courts. The majority thus throws the weight of the Supreme Court

behind the ability of the Trump administration to get rid of departments established by Congress,

a power the Supreme Court denied when President Richard M. Nixon tried it in 1973.

This is a major expansion of presidential power,

permitting the President to disregard laws Congress has passed,

despite the Constitution's clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone.

President Donald J. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education

because he claims it pushes woke ideology on America's school children

and that its employees hate our children.

Running for office, he promised to return education to the states.

In fact, the Education Department has never set curriculum.

It disperses funds for high poverty schools and educating students with disabilities.

It's also in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding.

Trump's Secretary of Education, professional wrestling promoter Linda McMahon, supports Trump's

plan to dismantle the department. In March, the department announced it would lay off 1378 employees,

about half the department. 19 states and the District of Columbia sued to stop

the layoffs, and Massachusetts federal judge Myeongjun ordered the department to reinstate the fired

workers. The Supreme Court has now put that order on hold, permitting the layoffs to go forward.

Justices Katanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan concurred in a dissent written by Justice Sonia

Sotomayor, noting that Trump has claimed power to destroy the congressionally established

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