It’s a day of the week, so you knew somehow, somewhere, a federal judge would block a Trump administration effort of some sort or other. It’s become as common as the sun rising.
Here we go again, and this time it’s regarding the president’s desire to jettison the bloated and ineffective Department of Education:
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from dismantling the Department of Education on Thursday, ruling that it cannot be done without congressional approval.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun's order blocks the Trump administration from carrying out the mass-firing at the DOE announced in March and orders that any employees who were already fired be reinstated.
Joun's order noted Trump's repeated calls to shut down the department while on the campaign trail, and argued the reduction in force was his means of doing so.
"The idea that Defendants’ actions are merely a ‘reorganization’ is plainly not true," Joun wrote.
🚨 BREAKING: Activist judge unilaterally HALTS President Trump's actions to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 22, 2025
The judge is ordering the re-hiring of employees.
Judge Myong J. Joun, appointed by Joe Biden.
UNREAL!!! pic.twitter.com/cy2THbhuNJ
Joun is not the only Massachusetts judge who’s been busy dictating policy this week:
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The judge insisted that only Congress could order the complete dismantling of the department:
"Defendants do acknowledge, as they must, that the Department cannot be shut down without Congress’s approval, yet they simultaneously claim that their legislative goals (obtaining Congressional approval to shut down the Department) are distinct from their administrative goals (improving efficiency). There is nothing in the record to support these contradictory positions," his ruling continues.
BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 22, 2025
This can't happen without cnogressional approval, she ruled.https://t.co/OsEWPn6OOj pic.twitter.com/0JsoRPHXPR
Although the above tweet references Judge Joun as a “she,” all evidence points to him actually being a “he.” You never know these days, however.
The ruling means that the administration has to rehire as many as 1,300 staffers who left through buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees. Under the leadership of Secretary Linda McMahon, the department has reduced its staff to roughly half the 4,100 they had when Trump took office.
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Although this type of ruling has become all too common in Trump’s return to the Oval Office, there is actually a simple solution: the Republican-controlled Congress could take a stand and try to pass approval for nuking the department. Let’s get on it, people.
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