The Supreme Court is allowing Donald Trump to dismantle the Department of Education. But it won’t say why.Yesterday—almost exactly a week after the Court lifted a lower court’s block on Trump’s plans to fire thousands of federal employees—a majority of the justices decided to give the president the go-ahead for a different set of mass layoffs. Last week, the Court provided a handful of sentences that vaguely gestured at why it might have allowed the administration to move forward. This week, it offered nothing at all. There’s something taunting, almost bullying, about this lack of reasoning, as if the conservative supermajority is saying to the country: You don’t even deserve an explanation.Whereas last week’s case involved orders to lay off employees from across the entire federal government, this week’s involves just the Education Department. Over the course of his 2024 campaign and in the first few months of his second… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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