The Supreme Court is offering a new terrifying version of America

In 1979, Congress created the Department of Education when it approved the Law of the Organization of the Department of Education. The bill was signed by President Jimmy Carter, who subsequently executed the law next to the new agency at the cabinet level. Each president since then, whether they supported the existence of the agency or not, attended and directed the agency as required by the law approved by Congress.

That is, until Donald Trump began his second term. Although the Congress had approved and a president had signed the law creating the agency, Trump moved to abolish it unilaterally through executive orders and a severe reduction in the personnel who would do its operations, who, again, would require the law, impossible to execute. Despite the decisions of the lower courts stopping Trump’s effort to eliminate the agency by Fiat, the conservative supermayization of the Supreme Court said it could move forward and dismantle the agency.

Except that conservative judges really didn’t say anything at all.

On July 14, they revoked a court order of the lower Court that had arrested Trump’s order while the courts weighs if he had the power to dismantle the agency. And did not provide any explanation at all.

“The preliminary mandate of May 22, 2025 entered by the United States District Court for the Massachusetts district, case No. 1: 25 – CV – 10601, remains on the waiting Brief, the brief, the unpleasant majority. In the event that Certioari is granted, the stay will end when sending the judgment of this court. “

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The inexplicable decision of the court received a hard rebuke of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in a dissent, more than 10 times longer than the real majority order, along with the other two liberal judges of the Court.

“[This] The decision is indefensible, “Sotomayor wrote.” He gives the Executive the power to repeal the statutes firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is deliberately blind to the implications of their ruling or naive, but in any way the threat to the separation of powers of our Constitution is serious. “

The decision of the six conservative judges of the Court ends the claim that the Superior Court of the Nation is following the law while judging the cases. On the other hand, it exemplifies how the court has blessed the efforts of the second Trump administration to force a “post-constitutional” moment in the country and reorder the structure of the national government for its benefit. In this version of America, neither the courts nor the administration are responsible for the people. Then the judges have stopped offering answers at all.

“What they are doing is what is in the best interest of the Republican Party, whether they have reasons or not,” said Eric Segall, professor of constitutional law at Georgia State University. “And it would be very difficult for them to write some of these decisions.”

Since he assumed the position, Trump has pushed much beyond the limits of the existing legal precedent and the law when trying to dismantle the federal government, centralize power in his own hands and increase a deportation machine. The only opposition to these efforts comes from judges of the lower court, who have overwhelmingly blocked these policies or actions, while the courts listen to cases to determine their legality. This is a standard practice: normally, the courts try to preserve the status quo in case of a ruling against the government. The decisions of the lower court against Trump have also been bipartisan, since the judges issued by court order were appointed by presidents of both parties.

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To counteract this opposition from the lower court, Trump has appealed those decisions to the Supreme Court, where he has found great success. The Court has revoked 77% of the Trump administration policies by the Judges of the Lower Court, according to the Professor of Political Sciences at Stanford University, Adam Bonica. And he has not been able to provide an explanation of his actions in seven decisions on the emergency file that has issued since the beginning of May, including his decision on the Department of Education, according to the professor of the Law Faculty of the University of Georgetown, Stephen Vladeck.

In addition, the court also greatly restricted the capacity of the lower courts to even issue national caution at all, in a controversial decision that involves the citizenship of birth law.

“What they are doing now is to let Trump destroy the status quo when the judges of the lower courts say it is illegal,” said Segall. “How do you defend that? So aren’t they [defending it]. “

While it is not unusual for decisions to be taken in the judicial system without explanation, it is unusual that this happens in important cases with high bets in an appeal court such as the Supreme Court. By not providing explanations not only undergoing the court in the public eye, but also undermines it within the Federal Judicial System, where the lower courts must consider precedents and the interpretation of the laws of the Supreme Court when making their own decisions.

That is what was developed after the Court revoked a ruling of the lower court that prevents immigrants from immigrants to countries that are not on June 23 in a decision not signed and not spoken in the Department of National Security v. DVD, the decision effectively allowed the Trump administration to continue with the sending of immigrants without emigrants to the places with the current war and the background of turtle and prisoners’ Mistrates such as the South of the South, such as the South Sudan, or the Sud of the South Sudas, or the Sud. El Salvador, where the administration sent hundreds of Venezuelans to a noticeable prison of supermax.

Since the court did not provide any explanation for its decision, it created confusion and uncertainty about what should happen later. The lower court judge in the case continued to follow the case of DVD plaintiffs, including the initiation of contempt procedures against the administration for disobeying their initial decision. This forced the Supreme Court to clarify its June 23 decision by stating that it applied to those plaintiffs, but most did not yet provide any additional explanation for their decision.

In a dissent together with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sotomayor punished the conservative judges of the Court for refusing to explain.

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“The continuous negative of the Court to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even when you fail in the lower courts for not being able to adequately divine its importation, it is indefensible,” Sotomayor wrote.

This tacit decision will now allow the Trump administration to participate in massive immigrants interpretations to countries in which they have never been, without asking them if they fear their safety in those countries.

It is worth highlighting What the Court has done in these decisions: allows the massive violation of immigrants under the law of the United States and the Torture Convention. It does not justify why, it does not offer a reason why you can believe that these actions are legal. It does not even suggest that these actions are, in some way, necessary, despite the violations. It does not provide a single reason. It also allows Trump to unilaterally dismantle an agency created with Congress, undermining years of precedents and destabilizing not only the specific system that provides the necessary services, but also the basic structure of how these systems are implemented. Again, it does not offer explanation.

Nor are these the only cases in which rights and laws are violated are set aside without a single word written about why.

On July 8, the court let Trump Continue with massive shots Throughout the Federal Government that were headed by the Efficiency Department of the Government of Elon Musk in another inexplicable order. It also allowed the Department of Defense prohibit transgender people From serving in the army in an inexplicable decision on May 6. And on May 19, the Court did not provide an explanation of why it would allow the administration Strip 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants from its temporary protected state.

All these decisions have potentially irreversible effects, even if the courts finally say that the administration’s policy is illegal or unconstitutional. LEGAL PROTECTION INTITANTS can be detained and deported, and those sent to third countries end Beyond the reach of US law – As the administration has argued In the case of hundreds already sent to El Salvador. Transgender people will be eliminated without army ceremonies, ending promising races. Government workers will be fired and probably unable to be hired.

As for the Department of Education, it would be a feat reconstituted an agency after dismantling it. The decision of the court here is similar to the decision that a person can be drawn and quartered while the judges decide whether they are guilty or not.

What happens if they are innocent? You can’t put together a dismembered corpse again.