Posted on 05/22/2025 10:53:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. The administration said it would challenge the ruling.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to shut down the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises.
The ruling came in two consolidated lawsuits that said Trump’s plan amounted to an illegal closure of the Education Department.
One suit was filed by the Somerville and Easthampton school districts in Massachusetts along with the American Federation of Teachers and other education groups. The other suit was filed by a coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general.
The suits argued that layoffs left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce civil rights laws.
In his order, Joun said the plaintiffs painted a “stark picture of the irreparable harm that will result from financial uncertainty and delay, impeded access to vital knowledge on which students and educators rely, and loss of essential services for America’s most vulnerable student populations.”
Layoffs of that scale, he added, “will likely cripple the Department. The idea that Defendants’ actions are merely a ‘reorganization’ is plainly not true.”
The department pledged to challenge his order.
“Once again, a far-left Judge has dramatically overstepped his authority, based on a complaint from biased plaintiffs, and issued an injunction against the obviously lawful efforts to make...”
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Myong Journ. America can’t afford Caucasian male judges anymore. We have to hire foreign REFUGEE LOSERS.
But don’t you DARE call it replacement migration.
The Department of Education, established in October 1979, ruined the education for tens of millions. It needs to be abolished. I voted for that. How dare you, you moron, stop that from happening.
Judges who try to be the President should have to be natural-born citizens.
Well, maybe you can suggest that to your Congressman.
It is obvious that the Federal Judiciary has usurped the governing powers of the other two “equal” branches of Government!
What does congress REQUIRE other than these listed here?
Despite this, I am RIGHT. And you know I am right.
Even if I got to the white house, they would be afraid to implement any suggestion I have, and they'd get tired of my criticism pretty quickly.
Wait until Norm Eisen and his governors oragnize to block literally everything he proposes at the state level. Then if they go to the Supreme Court, the awesome judges The Stable Genius picked will stab him in the back again. Than impeachment III, and more Repugnic-nt CONgressional sabotage.
I am hoping for an emergency to bring my tagline to life. It is the only way to save the country.
I bet you say that to all the guys you are kneeling next to in line at the ditch you and the rest of the prisoners at AOC's Death Camp for Republikkkan Nazis had to dig before the bullet meets the back of your heads.
Ancestors on the Mayflower. What? You never heard of Miles Standish’s right-hand man? May June? Identified as a man, anyway.
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