(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Nation’s two big Teachers Unions - the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), plus the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME), hit the ceiling when the U.S. Supreme Court’s GOP majority let Republican President Donald Trump dismantle the half of the Education Department he hasn’t already smashed.

The AFT said it is “incredibly disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump-Vance Administration to proceed with its harmful efforts to dismantle the Department of Education while our case moves forward.”

“This unlawful plan will immediately and irreparably harm students, Educators and communities. Children will be among those hurt the most by this decision. We will never stop fighting on behalf of all students and public schools and the protections, services and resources they need to thrive. From distributing funds to helping schools educate students with disabilities, to providing support and assistance to parents and families, protecting students’ Civil Rights, and making sure higher education is affordable for students, the Department of Education’s work is essential to the success of students,” the Teachers’ Union said.

The six Republican-named Justices gave no reasons for letting Trump resume the wholesale chain-sawing of the 46-year-old Department.

That would finish the guillotining, which Trump’s Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, began.

McMahon is a big GOP giver and former head of the World Wrestling Federation. 

Carrying out a Trump edict, McMahon fired half the Department’s Staff in her first days in office.

Trump openly wants her to fire the rest and “put yourself out of a job” because the Department wouldn’t exist.

Eliminating the Education Department is a favorite social issue for the radical right and the white nationalists who follow Trump.

He, and they, view the agency as a nest of radicals and as undermining their “principles” by actually teaching children to think.

They also hate the Department’s enforcement of Civil Rights Laws in U.S. schools, unless the agency pursues alleged discrimination against White People.

And misogynists among them hate its mandate for equality for Women and LGBTQ people, especially in school sports.

Leading the three dissenting, Democratic-named jurists, Justice Sonia Sotomayor declared Trump’s go-ahead, even while trials on the merits of his extermination continue in lower courts, “indefensible.”

“When the executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes that promise, it is the judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it,” Sotomayor said. 

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