In March, the portfolio announced The 50% reduction of your staff And a few days later Trump ordered the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, which Start “eliminate” the portfolio “once and for all.”
The decision was expected for a long time by the American right, but It requires the approval of the Congress.
At least one twenty states and unions of teachers challenged Given justice those decisions, with the argument that the Government violates the principle of separation of the powers because it is interferenced in the prerogatives of Congress.
Boston’s federal judge (Northeast) Myong Joun proved them right: suspended the presidential decree and ordered the Reintegration of hundreds of officials who had been fired.
“We cannot ask this court to close the eyes while employees are still dismissed and their units are transferred to make the department an empty shell“, The judge wrote in his decision.
Judge blocks massive dismissals from the Trump government in the Department of Educationhttps://t.co/e2hlb8021a
– CNN in Spanish (@cnnee) May 22, 2025
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