Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Education Department Employees

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The 6–3 ruling reverses a lower court order blocking the terminations.

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 and directing the government to rehire some of the departmental employees who had been laid off.

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun of Massachusetts issued an order on May 22 directing the government to rehire the laid-off employees and reverse other actions aimed at downsizing the department.

Joun said that for more than 150 years, “the federal government has played a crucial role in education.”

Since the department’s creation in 1979, its “role in education across the nation cannot be understated,” he wrote.

The agency oversees the federal student loan system, performs research for states and schools, distributes federal funds, and enforces compliance with various federal laws.

Joun said it’s clear that the Trump administration’s “true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department” without first obtaining the required congressional approval.

On June 4, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit declined to stay Joun’s order.

In an emergency application filed with the Supreme Court on June 6, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said laying off 1,378 department employees streamlines the agency and eliminates “discretionary functions that, in the Administration’s view, are better left to the States.”

Sauer acknowledged that only Congress can abolish the department. He added that the government needs to “retain sufficient staff to continue fulfilling statutorily mandated functions and [that it] has kept the personnel that … are necessary for those tasks.”

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.”

By Matthew Vadum

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