This week, the Supreme Court greenlit the Trump Administration’s firings at the Department of Education, marking a major win for the president.
The court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to block a federal judge’s order to reinstate about 1,400 employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
From The Daily Wire:
In March, Trump signed an executive order dismantling the Department of Education, following through on a key campaign promise to strengthen parental rights and improve academic outcomes across the country.
Also that month, Education Secretary Linda McMahon laid off about half of her department’s workforce.
The administration was hit with two lawsuits, one filed by a pair of Massachusetts school districts and the American Federation of Teachers union, and the other filed by 21 Democratic attorneys general.
In May, U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston blocked the administration’s order and said the fired employees must be allowed to return to work.
His ruling is now on hold while the legal challenge continues, but the administration is cleared to proceed with the layoffs for now.
“Everybody knows it’s right. The Democrats know it’s right,” Trump said just before signing the order. “We’re going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs, and this is a very popular thing to do, but much more importantly, it’s a common sense thing to do, and it’s going to work. Absolutely, it’s going to work.”
[h/t The Daily Wire]
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