Supreme Court Helps Trump Dismantle the Education Department

Rareș Mustață

The administration’s determination to shutter, not improve, the Education Department has never been in doubt. Photo: Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto/AP Photo Just last week, the Supreme Court, in one of its increasingly notorious “shadow docket” orders , which provide the Trump administration relief from pesky lower-court judges, removed restraints on Team Trump’s ability to implement mass firings in disfavored parts of the federal government. At first blush, a new July 14 order seems quite similar: The