The legal challenge continues to play out in lower courts.
The Supreme Court issued an unsigned decision this past week setting aside a lower court ruling that blocked President Trump’s administration from laying off over 1,000 workers in the Department of Education. Though the legal process continues, the plan can proceed for the present.
A Boston district judge blocked the reduction-in-force effort two months ago. The high court’s ruling lifts the injunction but is not a final decision, and litigation continues in the lower courts.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in court filings, “The Department of Education has determined that it can carry out its statutorily mandated functions with a pared-down staff and that many discretionary functions are better left to the States.” He continued, “That is a quintessential decision about managing internal executive-branch functions and the federal workforce that the Constitution reserves to the Executive Branch alone.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated that while the ruling “is a significant win for students and families, it is a shame that the highest court in the land had to step in to allow President Trump to advance the reforms Americans elected him to deliver using the authorities granted to him by the U.S. Constitution.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For President Trump and Secretary McMahon as they seek to reduce the size and bureaucracy of the Department of Education.
- For the Supreme Court justices as they respond to emergency appeals to nationwide injunctions from district courts.
- For federal judges to rule according to their jurisdictional authority under the Constitution.
Sources: Reuters, MSN, Daily Wire, Townhall
