Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of Education Department workers and dismantle the agency
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🗓️ 15 July 2025
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USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe discusses the high court's move to let President Donald Trump fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, July 15th, 2025. This is USA Today is the excerpt. |
| 0:12.7 | Today, what a Supreme Court decision means for the future of the Education Department, plus Trump's latest approach to Ukraine, and how some in his inner circle are upset with what's been |
| 0:21.6 | delivered about Jeffrey Epstein. The Supreme Court is letting President Donald Trump fire |
| 0:27.6 | hundreds of Education Department workers and dismantle the agency. I discussed with USA Today's |
| 0:32.9 | Supreme Court correspondent, Maureen Gropi. Maureen, always a pleasure having you on. How are you? |
| 0:37.8 | I'm good. Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:39.5 | Thanks for joining me. What did the court decide and how did the majority argue here? |
| 0:43.5 | So the Supreme Court lifted a lower court's order that had required the administration to |
| 0:48.0 | rehire hundreds of Education Department employees and had stopped the administration from transferring |
| 0:53.2 | some of the Education |
| 0:54.7 | Department functions to other agencies. The majority did not give an explanation for why it |
| 1:00.2 | disagreed with those decisions that were made by both a federal district judge and were backed up by |
| 1:05.8 | an appeals court. Instead, it was just a very short order lifting those decisions. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, this is an ideologically divided court on this. What did we hear from the dissenters? |
| 1:16.5 | So the three justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents, they opposed this order. |
| 1:22.4 | Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote 19 pages explaining why. The gist of it is that she said that the majority of justices |
| 1:29.7 | are allowing Trump to repeal laws that Congress passed, creating the Education Department, |
| 1:35.6 | allowing him to do that by firing all the employees who are needed to carry out the functions |
| 1:39.3 | that Congress required the Education Department to undertake. And she said her colleagues are either naive to think |
| 1:45.6 | that that is not what's happening or they are willfully looking the other way to allow it to happen. |
| 1:50.4 | All right. And what had we previously seen from the lower courts on this issue morning? |
| 1:54.1 | So that started with a federal judge in Massachusetts who said that the White House decision |
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