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.”

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    Like trump and company will listen or respect this decision. Haven’t the courts learned that they don’t give a fuck

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    these poor fucking kids, y’all.

    covid in 2020, trump again in 2025, decades of anti-education bullshit…

    real victims of the information war

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      Luckily for them, they’ll never be able to understand what was taken from them.

      So I guess there’s that…

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        Yeah, that, and the damn voucher scam they used to begin siphoning funding from public schools into private ones. Now they’re just straight up trying to fund private religious schools with taxpayer dollars. Blatantly unconstitutional, just like the rest of this admin.

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    For fuck’s sake, it was created by an act of Congress. This should be a no-brainer. Either the president’s job is to execute on the law as determined by Congress, not to just overrule it by fiat, or we have a king.

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      It doesn’t matter. The judicial cannot enforce anything. They don’t have the power

      It’s always been the weakness of the constitution. Only the honor system has kept us a country

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        The rights and freedoms of Americans has always been a gentleman’s agreement, and they’ve run out of gentlemen.

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      The word you are looking for is more like dictator.
      It’s not that it is wrong, but it is a bit fuzzy. Because Kings haven’t had dictatorial powers in western countries for centuries, and modern Kings are generally NOT above the law, and are often an integral part of well functioning democracies in modern societies.
      Denmark Norway and Sweden are all kingdoms, and are among the highest functioning democracies in the world.

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    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.

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      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.