Efforts to save Department of Education move to courts

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/22/25 6:00 AM ET


Defenders of the Department of Education are turning to the courts to save it after President Trump signed an executive order to abolish it and on Friday said he would move some of its most critical loan programs to the Small Business Administration (SBA). Trump cannot abolish the department without an act of Congress, and it is not clear that legislation doing so could get through Congress.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) nonetheless on Friday said he would seek legislation to end the department, even as Trump through executive action attempts to hollow out a government agency that had more than 4,000 employees just months ago. “I expect that any actions to shutter the agency or to dismantle it will be challenged in the courts, and those challenges will prevail,” Julie Margetta Morgan, a former deputy under secretary of Education during the Biden administration, told The Hill earlier this month.

“I think the other thing to think about here is that the decision to dismantle the Department of Education is incredibly unpopular, and people need to continue to voice their concerns about that and their displeasure with the Trump administration’s efforts and to hold policymakers accountable,” she added.

“See you in court” was a common theme among opponents as Trump ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the department as far as she is legally allowed without an act of Congress.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5207742-trump-department-of-education-courts-legal-challenge-mcmahon/

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Trump cannot abolish the department without an act of Congress, and it is not clear that legislation doing so could get through Congress.

This needs to CONTINUE to be at the TOP OF EVERY ARTICLE. Some outlets are FINALLY putting it "close to the top" rather than their usual practice of completely accepting and regurgitating the outright propaganda and misinformation before finally "fact checking" at the end of the article.

[GoreWon2000]

1. tRump Ed. dept. shutdown is unconstitutional

Only Congress can create or shutdown a government department per Article 1 of the U.S. constitution. tRump's executive order has no constitutional meaning.

[hlthe2b]

2. "Dr" Bill Cassidy lets "anti-vaxers" run HHS and now will facilitate the loss of school lunches, special Ed

and every other protective service the Dept. of Education ensures.

In a body full of hypocrites and Fully Ignorant MAGAT cretins, he ought to be the exception, but sadly...

[mikelewis]

3. The problem is... he can't abolish it so he's starving it to death....

By removing the staff and closing the doors, he's saying they don't need an entire department to satisfy Congress. And since Congress never specified how the President was to run the department, Chump can do whatever he wants... he doesn't need an act of Congress to do what he has done... he just pulled the plug and closed the door and made sure it slowly suffocates to death. It's the soft kill... and Congress won't do a thing to stop it...

The courts can but won't because it's a states issue... only if there were Articles of Impeachment could the courts act... even if there weren't any chance of them getting voted on... if Articles of Impeachment were introduced over dereliction of duty, then there's a legal challenge but that's not what is happening and so they are going to watch the Dept of Ed just slowly suffocate under its own weight.