Aaaand the NYT coverage∶

#Trump Breaks Up #Education Dept, Prompting Worries Over #CivilRights

#SpecialEducation programs & the Civil Rights office will be moved out of the Education Department, the most aggressive move yet by the Trump administration to dismantle the agency.

#law #Trump #idiocracy #education #IndividualizedEducation #LearningDifferences #IEDs #pedagogy #LearningModalities#legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/politics/education-department-civil-rights-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

AP coverage∶

Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-rights-special-education-3483478a51ea8001fcc70e8a77d08d9a

#law #Trump #idiocracy #education #SpecialEducation #IndividualizedEducation #LearningDifferences #IEDs #pedagogy #LearningModalities #CivilRights #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach

The Office of #SpecialEducation & #RehabilitativeServices, which oversees the Individuals With #Disabilities #Education Act, or #IDEA, will move to #RFKJr’s Department of Health and Human Services [ #HHS], these people said. The Office for #CivilRights will move to the #DOJ.…An Education Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

#Trump #idiocracy #law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach

#idiocracy

The #US #Education Department plans to move the offices that oversee #SpecialEducation services & #CivilRights out of the agency, part of the #Trump admin’s effort to close the department by moving all its functions to other parts of the government… [& further divide the classes creating a dumb servile class & a wealthy educated elite class].

The announcement was expected later in the day.

#law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/06/16/education-dept-plans-move-special-ed-civil-rights-out-agency/

Suspending #HabeasCorpus was one of two radical ideas #StephenMiller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf. The other was invoking the #InsurrectionAct to deploy the #military to enforce the #law on #US streets as #protests grew against #deportation sweeps.

Scharf wrote confidential memos to Wiles on both topics….

[article is long, but I recommend reading it]

#Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutivePower #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

He had helped develop the #Trump team’s legal arguments behind the successful effort to get the Mar-a-Lago #ClassifiedDocuments indictment thrown out, as well as the arguments behind the presidential #immunity case that prevailed at #SCOTUS. He had embraced the most contentious elements of Trump’s agenda, but was quickly coming up against the limit of what the #Constitution, in his reading, could be made to bear.

#HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutivePower #democracy

The man who outlined his concerns in the memo, Mr. Scharf, was no resistance figure. A trim, balding, Harvard-trained lawyer who had run for office in Missouri, he had bemoaned John McCain as too moderate for the 2008 Republican nomination, & believed #Trump had been vindictively prosecuted after his 2020 election loss.

#HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #ExecutivePower #democracy #immigration

Yet to a greater degree than previously known, admin ofcls, encouraged by #Trump, actively weighed taking that step in the early months of his 2nd term—this time to accelerate mass #deportation of immigrants…
Flush with a 2024 election victory, Trump & members of his team wanted to test how far the emboldened president’s authority could be pushed, setting off previously unreported internal struggles over where the limits should be.

#HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Constitution

Scharf’s memo, in its unassuming way, was a blinking red warning light. The 2nd #Trump White House was deliberating an explosive new claim of #PresidentialPower: the suspension of habeas rights for unauthorized #immigrants.

The suspension of #HabeasCorpus has occurred just a handful of times in US history, & always under the most dire circumstances of #war or #invasion.

#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

Dated April 29, 2025, & stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful & lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of #law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”

#HabeasCorpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the #Constitution.

#Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch- #conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by #StephenMiller, the powerful adviser driving Trump’s #deportation campaign.

#Trump #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

#GiftArticle

Frustrated by #Courts, #Trump Weighed Suspending a #ConstitutionalRight

Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit #HabeasCorpus rights for undocumented #immigrants.

#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/trump-scharf-habeas-corpus-insurrection-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.lXuS.MD3Zz-LZfw_p&smid=nytcore-ios-share