On Thursday, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon from carrying out Trump’s executive order calling for the secretary to close the Education Department.

The judge also told the administration to reinstate the roughly 1,300 Education Department employees who were told in March that they would lose their jobs as part of a sweeping reduction-in-force and “to restore the Department to the status quo.”

In his ruling, District Court Judge Myong J. Joun wrote, “A department without enough employees to perform statutorily mandated functions is not a department at all. This court cannot be asked to cover its eyes while the Department’s employees are continuously fired and units are transferred out until the Department becomes a shell of itself.”

  • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The judge also told the administration to reinstate Education Department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced on March 11 and “to restore the Department to the status quo.”

    Or what? Seriously. He’s not going to do it, nothing will change, he won’t have any consequences, and he will continue penetrating America’s proverbial asshole with a hot curling iron.

    • Omega@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Ideally, start arresting every person who enacts the president’s illegal actions. They should have arrested every person in DOGE that illegally occupied any of the government buildings or seized government information.

      Its not going to happen.

        • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          16 days ago

          If the president can ignore the court, the court can ignore the laws.

          Of course, down that road lies. . . well, we passed Madness a while back. Not sure where this road leads, anymore.

            • DragonSidedD@lemmy.ml
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              16 days ago

              Still has to pass the Senate

              Angry fiscal conservatives might still kill it if their constituents are up in arms about spending

              • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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                16 days ago

                Oh for sure. Senate Republicans have stated that they were annoyed the house was wasting their time with the bill in its current form.

                It will probably end up changing significantly. Most of the Senate is more moderate than House members.