Monday, July 14, 2025

SCOTUS Gives Him Go Ahead to Fire Hundreds in Dept of Education

An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

Posted by Corky at 09:32 PM | 26 COMMENTS | permalink

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25 ... From Sotomayor's dissent:

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-- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) Jul 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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"Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress "by firing all those necessary to carry them out."

"The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive," Sotomayor wrote, "but either way the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is great."

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The original Court and the Appeals Court had both ruled against Trump.... they just were not RIGGED enough!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-14 04:24 PM

"by firing all those necessary to carry them out."

Defund the United States!
--Republicans

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-14 04:26 PM

I don't mind saying we spend too much money in education -- outside the classroom.

Administrators should not make substantially more than teachers.

Teachers should get paid at least as well as the Resource Officers that so many schools have now.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-14 04:28 PM

"we did some bad things

we designed a meritocracy around
the skills we ourselves
possess and rigged the game so we
succeeded and everybody else failed

by age 12 American children of
affluent parents are four grade levels
above everybody else

by University the rich kids are 77 times more likely
to go to university or to ivy league
university than kids from poor schools

in adulthood 54% of the people at Elite
workplaces went to the same 34 Elite
colleges

so we ended up creating a cast
system

people with high school degrees
die nine years sooner than people with
college degrees

people with high school degrees
are five times more likely to
have kids out of wedlock

people with high school degrees are 2.4 times more
likely to say they have no friends

so we created a cast system even though we
pretend to be egalitarian

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart)

more

www.youtube.com

Project25 is the Oligarchs Plan to make ALL those numbers worse, and Dept of Education is one of their biggest targets.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-14 04:36 PM

Thing is, this won't actually improve anything. It will just allow states to leave special ed kids and lower performers behind.

Oh, and f*&^ this court. Roberts once said he was concerned about his legacy. Well, that legacy is going to be s*&^ as he's instrumental in destroying the country and setting it back decades.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-14 05:50 PM

Step by step, our autocratic dictatorship of Trump is coming into view...all he has to do is destroy a few more centers of opposition to him. Goodness knows the educated hate him, so to ---- with public education.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-15 07:58 AM

The Department of Defense wasn't created until 1947. Let's get rid of that one next.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-15 08:09 AM

#7: And Trumpf referred to Kegsbreath as "Secretary of War" last week.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-15 08:16 AM

"by firing all those necessary to carry them out."
Defund the United States!
--Republicans

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-14 04:26 PM | Reply | Flag:
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I don't mind saying we spend too much money in education -- outside the classroom.
Administrators should not make substantially more than teachers.
Teachers should get paid at least as well as the Resource Officers that so many schools have now.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-14 04:28 PM | Reply | Flag:
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I'm assuming #2 was just a knee jerk response because #3 contradicts it and for good reason. Ever since the DOE was established test scores have decreased. Dismantling the DOE will not take money away from children it simply lets the states control it. If it doesn't result in higher test scores than the decision was a failure but the DOE was already a failure in that regard.

#9 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-07-15 12:14 PM

"Ever since the DOE was established test scores have decreased."
Ever since wages started lagging behind productivity test scores have decreased.

"Dismantling the DOE will not take money away from children it simply lets the states control it."
So then the States take the money away from children.
It's like saying Roe did not make abortion illegal. It simply lets the states make abortion illegal.
The end result it the same.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:28 PM

"Theocratic autocracy, here we come!" - MAGA

#11 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-15 12:39 PM

Another win for America.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-15 01:09 PM

"Dismantling the DOE will not take money away from children it simply lets the states control it."
So then the States take the money away from children.
It's like saying Roe did not make abortion illegal. It simply lets the states make abortion illegal.
The end result it the same.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 12:28 PM | Reply | Flag:
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So if the states take the money away from children then those responsible can get voted out unlike the DOE. That's called Democracy. Glad we can agree that democracy should prevail.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-07-15 01:44 PM

"So if the states take the money away from children then those responsible can get voted out unlike the DOE."

The DOE got voted out in November, according to you.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 01:45 PM

#14 Technically correct. So yes, the majority of voters in this country want the DOE dismantled.

#15 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-07-15 01:52 PM

Fishpuss has the gravitas of a Barbie doll... and the same education, apparently.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 01:58 PM

Fishpuss has the gravitas of a Barbie doll... and the same education, apparently.
#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 01:58 PM | Reply | Flag:
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And you though Harris was a genius.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-07-15 02:03 PM

Sorry you are one of the poor underedumacated slobs described in #4, Fishslit.

You should at least watch the vid to see what the Oligarch Elite did to you... and learn something about actual Conservatism rather than this Cult Life you've chosen.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 02:09 PM

And btw, what I though about Kamala is, well, gee... at least she isn't a Traitor, which dozens of Trump loyalists swore under oath that he was.

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 02:12 PM

Sotomayr's opinion was pure emotion. That's it. What a hack.

#20 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-15 05:51 PM

And you though Harris was a genius.
#17 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

You seem to think Trump is a genius.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-15 06:33 PM

Sotomayr's opinion was pure emotion. That's it. What a hack.
#20 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Brilliant rebuttal.

Where'd you copy it from?

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-15 06:34 PM

Ballwasher the FAGAT

#23 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-15 09:36 PM

Fire the churches.

#24 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-16 12:26 PM

Fire the churches.

#24 | POSTED BY REDLIGHTROBOT

There's an idea.

Just do it at night when no one is in there please.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-16 12:44 PM

Fire the churches.
#24 | POSTED BY REDLIGHTROBOT
There's an idea.
Just do it at night when no one is in there please.
#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-16 12:44 PM

Only echoes of insanity.

#26 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-16 02:51 PM

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