A federal judge in Boston prevented the Trump administration from trying to dismantle the Ministry of Education.
On Thursday, the American boycott judge, Maung John, issued a preliminary order prohibiting the Trump administration from launching half of the workforce in the Ministry of Education.
The order issued by Judge John – who is appointed by Biden – is prohibited by the Ministry of Education from transferring the Federal Student Loans Department to the small business administration.
The decision coincides with the first time that the Federal judge determines that the comprehensive changes of the Trump administration in the Ministry of Education are illegal.
At the present time, it is a stopping of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismiss more than 2000 employees of the Ministry of Education, transfer the obligations of federal students ’loans, and implement the presidential executive order on March 20 to” take all the steps necessary to facilitate the closure of the Ministry of Education. “
A group that includes many state lawyers, schools and non -profit organizations have stabbed Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of the Ministry of Education last month, on the pretext that the president cannot close a unitary ministry from one side established by Congress.
Trump administration lawyers have argued that efforts to limit the Ministry of Education would make it more efficient, and they were separate from Trump’s pledge to cancel the department.
The Ministry of Education Building in Washington, March 24, 2025.
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Judge John was not convinced. He offered a blatant evaluation of the Trump administration that the recent changes in the Ministry of Education are to improve efficiency, rather than to implement Trump’s pledge to directly cancel the administration.
“The idea that the actions of the defendants are merely” reorganizing “that are not clearly correct.”
The changes imposed by Trump and the Minister of Education, Linda McMahon, Judge John, wrote, “It is actually impossible for the administration to implement its positions delegated legally.”
Although Trump has the power to remove executives, the president does not have the authority to dismantle the entire federal administrations directly, he wrote. He also made doubts that the legislative effort to cancel the Ministry of Education was separate from his executive actions.
“Not only is any evidence that the defendants are following” a legislative goal “or working with Congress in another way to reach a decision, but there is also no evidence that RIF made the administration more efficient. Instead, the record is full of evidence on the contrary,” Judge Books, in reference to “the extinguishing”.
“The united prosecutors have proven that the administration will not be able to carry out its legal functions – and in some cases, he was not able to do so – and the defendants did not provide any evidence of the opposite,” he wrote.
