Right-Wing Supreme Court Justices Announce Trump CAN Keep Dismantling the Department of Education

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Only Congress can create or close a government agency like the Department of Education. However, the six right-wing Supreme Court Justices ruled that Trump can continue his efforts to close the Department of Education even though it clearly violates the doctrine of separation of powers.

Justice Sotomayor authored a powerful and persuasive dissenting opinion, exposing the illegality and unconstitutionality of what Trump is doing, and highlighting the danger to American democracy when the Supreme Court condones Trump's lawlessness.

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0:00.0	It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirshner.
0:15.8	Six justices of the Supreme Court have given Donald Trump the green light to continue dismantling the Department of Education.
0:23.8	Glenn has the story next on Justice Matters.
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1:04.1	Hey all. Glenn Kirshner here. So friends, we continue to live amidst the Trump-induced darkness and lawlessness as facilitated by six members of the Supreme Court.
1:19.7	Because without even bothering to author an opinion, the Supreme Court said Donald Trump can continue to tear down, shut down, terminate the Department of Education, even though he lacks the constitutional authority to do so.
1:38.7	So let's start with the new reporting, and then we're going to have a look, a close look, at the critically important
1:46.0	dissenting opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor as joined by Justice Kagan and Katanji
1:54.6	Brown Jackson. But first, here's the new reporting. This from NPR.
2:02.4	Headline.
2:09.9	Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the education department can continue.
2:12.6	And that article begins.
2:22.6	The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.
2:31.3	The court stayed or paused a preliminary injunction issued in May by a federal judge in Massachusetts.
2:37.3	That injunction had directed the Trump administration to stop gutting the Department of Education and to reinstate many of the nearly 1,400 workers the government had laid off.
2:45.7	Monday's ruling is not the final word as the case continues to work its way through the lower courts,
2:52.2	but it deals a serious blow to the states and school districts who had filed suit and who
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