Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Education Department Employees

The Supreme Court on July 14 allowed President Donald Trump to move forward with dismantling the Department of Education by firing almost 1,400 employees. The ruling in McMahon v. New York took the form of an unsigned order. The court did not explain its decision. Three justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—dissented from the ruling. A federal district court had issued an injunction blocking the process, directing the government to rehire some of the departmental employees who had been laid off. Trump campaigned on shuttering the department. On March 20, he signed Executive Order 14242, pledging to close the agency, which he said “has entrenched the education bureaucracy and sought to convince America that Federal control over education is beneficial.”...