The Department Of Miseducation

 I have no response to the current Supreme Court's decision to allow the Executive Branch to unilaterally gut the Department of Education. It's obviously part of the Project 2025 Playbook that was so unpopular when it was leaked a year ago, that Trump disavowed it, only to make it his operating software in January.

The idea that a president can unilaterally fire civil servants with the express intent of ending a cabinet level department that was created and funded by Congress is basically tyranny. It is executive power unconstrained by law. What's more, we know full well that if President Ossoff fires 90% of ICE agents in January of 2029, the Supreme Court will rule that illegal. 

Or - perhaps more likely - the current ruling is a placeholder. They removed the stay, they did not rule the firings were OK. They will let Trump and his minions terrorize the Federal workforce, fire a bunch of people and then rule that he couldn't actually do that in late 2028. At that point, good people intent on public service will have zero desire to sign up to work for a capricious and senile old man intent on, you know, terrorizing the Federal workforce. The Departments that Trump targets will be gutted and hollow shells, but the Court will eventually rule, "Hey, you couldn't actually do that!" once there is the threat of a Democratic president.

To this point, the only institutions offering up even a modicum of resistance to Trump are the lower courts. As servants of the law, these judges - appointed by presidents of both parties - have been aghast at the nihilistic lawlessness of this presidency. As Richardson notes in the piece linked above, two thirds of the lawyers whose job it is to defend the administration have quit, either because what they are being asked to do is illegal, nonsensical or more likely both. 

Trump will increasingly be represented in District and Circuit courts by idiots like Alina Habba and Jeanine Pirro, and the administration will lose on the merits, only to have the Supreme Court stay any remedy until 2028-29.

Whomever assumes power after Trump - and I'm still going to assume that there will be actual elections in the future - is going to have to unwind a LOT of shit. The Supreme Court, however, could be the hardest institution to unfuck.