The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education, blocking a federal judge’s ruling that had previously halted them.
Monday’s unsigned order was in response to an emergency application from the Trump administration. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
This decision “hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out,” Sotomayor wrote in a scathing dissent, joined by Kagan and Jackson. “The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave.”