More than 175 Democratic members of Congress are filing an amicus brief on Thursday opposing the Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education.
“The law couldn’t be clearer: the president does not have the authority to unilaterally abolish the Department of Education,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a statement first obtained by ABC News, adding, “Donald Trump is not a king, and he cannot single-handedly cut off access to education for students across this country.”
Warren and Reps. Jamie Raskin, Bobby Scott and Rosa DeLauro – the ranking members of the House’s Education and Judiciary committees – are leading the 15-page legal document. They’re joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, more than 20 Senate Democrats, and more than 150 other members of the House Democratic caucus.
Oh good. Another strongly worded letter.
Surely finger wagging will work this time, right?
Surely the court decision will work this time, right?
They should be mobilizing us into the streets for nation wide, daily, strikes and protests until this administration is held accountable for its heinous actions.
They have real strong “the goverment should do something about that” energy while being the government.
Right?
Do nothing Democrats need to be primaried.
And they humorously ousted the vice chair who was stating the same thing.
They’d rather try and uphold a status quo that wasn’t working for any of us rather than fight fascism actively.
They’re lawyers and professors: a peacetime government. They don’t understand yet that we’re at war.
So, a small aside. I have to give some credit to Star Wars, of all things. I’m not really a fan, but after I watched Andor, I looked up wiki articles about what ended up happening to Mon Mothma, aside from that one appearance in Return to the Jedi. It turns out that once the Rebellion won, she became supreme chancellor. She was quick to renounce the powers of the Emperor and pushed an agenda of peace treaties and reconciliation with Imperial remnants. She wanted so badly for things to return to status quo and for the fighting to stop that she intentionally did not root out or hold imperial traitors accountable when the Rebellion won. In the fiction they make it pretty clear that this is what directly led to the destruction of the New Republic some years later.
This is so accurate and exactly what would happen if this boiled over into an actual civil war.
Ooooh, an amicus brief! Nothing says “end fascism” like 15 pages of paper.
