Supreme Court allows mass layoffs at Education Department
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“Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision is a slap in the face to students, families, educators, and taxpayers across America,” said Sen. Lindsey Williams, D-Pittsburgh. While the court majority did not issue an explanation of their decision, Justice Sotomayor, who was among the three opposing justices, wrote a dissenting opinion on the matter.
The Department of Justice on Monday urged the Supreme Court to turn away an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence.
President Donald Trump has achieved significant victories in the Supreme Court during the first six months of his second term.
"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.
Kansans should reject a rigged system run by a small group of elite professionals and political insiders who pretend to be above politics, and in its stead adopt a transparent system that gives voters a voice in selecting those who are the final arbiters of the meaning and application of the laws by which they are governed.
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Texas lawsuit over drugs and vaccines provided by insurers ends with a win for the government — and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.