The Supreme Court of the United States delivered another notable win to the Trump administration on Monday, staying a lower-court injunction involving the president's attempts to downsize and ultimately end the Department of Education.
In May, Massachusetts District Court Judge Myong J. Joun, a Joe Biden appointee, sided with several left-wing states after they sued over firings at the department. The injunction not only stopped the administration from continuing to cut staff, but it also ordered them to re-hire those who had been terminated.
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In a 6-3 decision, with all the Democrat-appointed justices dissenting, the Supreme Court put the kibosh on that and returned power to the White House, paving the way for the firings to continue.
🚨🚨BREAKING--BOOM: Trump scores another win at SCOTUS. 1/ pic.twitter.com/iQTnsrQdjH
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) July 14, 2025
4/ SCOTUS "stayed" the injunction, meaning Dept of Ed can fire away and implement Trump's EO, which required agency to comply with law. SCOTUS did not explain reasoning, but lots of flaws in lower court, i.e., not jurisidiction over employee disputes, States' have no injury.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) July 14, 2025
As Margot Cleveland notes in her thread, there were standing issues with the original lawsuit. For instance, what possible injury could states prove based on how the president, who has statutory authorities over executive agencies, chooses to staff the Department of Education? And why would a judge in Massachusetts have jurisdiction over that?
By ordering the administration to re-hire those fired, Judge Joun had essentially taken all power over the agency away from Trump. If he can't decide who works there, and he can't order his policies to be instituted, then the Department of Education would simply exist as an agency unto itself, and that's not at all how any of this works.
Does that mean Trump can permanently abolish the Department of Education? Long-term, that would take an act of Congress. But if he chooses to run it a certain way during his term, that should be his prerogative. Now, we wait to see if any other lower court judges want to get cute. The recent trend has been to use class-action designations to get around the Supreme Court's decision on nationwide injunctions, so never doubt their creativity.
Still, this is a step in the right direction toward allowing Trump to actually be president during his presidency. If Democrats want to do things differently, they should try winning elections.
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