In a press statement following the United States Supreme Court Shadow Docket ruling, without explanation, that would allow the Know Nothing Science and History denying Anti Public Education Trump MAGA-Project 2025-Fascist Regime to continue its war on knowledge by gutting the staff at the Department of Education, Arizona House Assistant Democratic Leader and Educator Nancy Gutierrez blasted the decision by the Conservative Backward Return to the Gilded Age Court Majority, writing:
“Education is the great equalizer, and an educated society is the antidote to fascism. That is why public education is under attack by Trump and his right-wing cronies. To say that I am disappointed in the Supreme Court is the understatement of the century. This same Supreme Court ruled that President Biden couldn’t cancel student loans,
but turns around and says that Trump can gut the Department of Education without Congressional approval? Ridiculous. Absolute partisan cowardice and capitulation, and our students and economy will pay the price.”
“The Department of Education is vital for funding Pell Grants, which allow students who can’t afford tuition to access a college education. It plays a crucial role in distributing funds, enforcing civil rights laws, and promoting equal opportunity to education. This will be detrimental to our future as a country. To see this right-wing, MAGA agenda destroy our public education system that accepts all students and educates everyone is a travesty. If Trump guts the Department, it will mostly harm the most underserved communities. It will cripple Title 1 schools and our Special Education students will be dramatically impacted. Why would an administration want to hinder the ability for public education? An uneducated public is much easier to control, and I fear that this is the agenda moving forward and that the Judiciary Branch is aiding this. It’s a very sad time for Democracy.”
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was equally damning of her conservative colleagues position in her dissent to their unjustifiable ruling, writing:
“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. Two lower courts rose to the occasion, preliminarily enjoining the mass firings while the litigation remains ongoing. Rather than maintain the status quo, however, this Court now intervenes, lifting the injunction and permitting the Government to proceed with dismantling the Department. That decision is indefensible. It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave.”
“… The Department did not explain how terminating half of the agency’s work force overnight would improve efficiency, nor how it would be able to continue carrying out its statutory functions. The reason for that silence soon became apparent. In statements to the press, McMahon confirmed the reduction in force was “the first step on the road to a total shutdown” of the Department, as directed by the President. Similarly, when asked during a congressional hearing whether the Department had conducted “an actual analysis to determine what the effects of [the reduction in force] would be” on the Department’s ability to carry out its statutory functions, McMahon responded, “No.”
“… The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief.”
Representative Gutierrez is right when she says this drive to destroy public education is a blatant drive by Trump and his friends in the plutocratic-oligarchical segment of this country to continue the dumbing down of children and pave the road to American Fascism.
Justice Sotomayor is actually wrong when she writes “The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave.”
These bastards know what they are doing. They want to return this country to a time before there was a Progressive Era, Square Deal, New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society and War on Poverty.
Their mission, even Clarence Thomas’s is to reinstitute a White Nationalist Gilded Age where social mobility and advancement is based on Social Darwinism, crony capitalism is supreme, civil rights are compromised, environmentalism is what the private sector says it is, and equality is a dream.
These are all reasons why opponents of public education need to be voted out and an expanded Supreme Court should now be considered by the public servants who value opportunity for all, inclusion for everyone, and moving this nation forward.
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