Judge blocks Trump's orders to dismantle Education Department and fire employees

Once again, a far-left Judge has dramatically overstepped his authority, based on a complaint from biased plaintiffs, and issued an injunction against the obviously lawful efforts to make the Department of Education more efficient and functional for the American people,

spokesperson Madi Biedermann said in a statement

Today’s order means that the Trump administration’s disastrous mass firings of career civil servants are blocked while this wildly disruptive and unlawful agency action is litigated,

said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represents plaintiffs in the Somerville case

No one’s lives are being made better by this administration’s attempted dismantling of the Department of Education,

Perryman said

A department without enough employees to perform statutorily mandated functions is not a department at all,

the judge wrote

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The record abundantly reveals that defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the department without an authorizing statute,

Judge Joun wrote in his order

Our public education system is too important to be undermined by actions that threaten our students’ rights and opportunities,

Ms. Krepchin said

The idea that Defendants’ actions are merely a ‘reorganization’ is plainly not true,

Joun wrote

The Constitution gives President Trump the power to remove personnel who exercise his executive authority,

White House spokesman Harrison Fields told the Associated Press

Defendants do acknowledge, as they must, that the Department cannot be shut down without Congress’s approval, yet they simultaneously claim that their legislative goals (obtaining Congressional approval to shut down the Department) are distinct from their administrative goals (improving efficiency). There is nothing in the record to support these contradictory positions,

his ruling continues

Defendants have not pointed to any case that indicates that the Secretary's effective dismantling of the Department is within her reorganization powers,

Joun wrote

This ruling is not in the best interest of American students or families,

spokesperson Madi Biedermann said

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The Department must be able to carry out its functions and its obligations," as well as "other relevant statutes as mandated by Congress,

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston wrote in the injunction