Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer
“As Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated in her dissent to the decision that allows DJT to destroy the Department of Education, ‘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.’ Right now, the law is whatever Trump says it is.”
So wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissenting from the Supreme Court giving Donald J. Trump the green light to destroy the Department of Education.
Supposedly, a President cannot unilaterally abolish a federal agency that was created by an act of Congress. Except that Trump says that whatever he says goes, and the Court’s conservative super-majority has agreed. I’m sure we all remember the Access Hollywood tape, where DJT said, “When you’re a star, they let you do whatever you want.”
The demolition of the Department of Education will be a cruel act of sabotage towards not only vital educational research and financial aid for education, but, also, will further undermine the rights of low-income students and students with disabilities. Trump has never been known for his compassion for the weak. His attitude towards the frail and sick and disabled can be compared to that of ancient Sparta, where those with disabilities were thrown on the rocks to die a cruel death.
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Medicaid will no longer be able to help the poor in America. Trying to use it for health care will be death by 1,000 paper cuts. And now the Department of Education, long a target of the Trump MAGA hordes, is in the cross hairs.
This is not the United States of America I grew up in, and it is not the nation I love. We need to stop this man and the monsters and incompetents within his administration before they ruin us forever.
