It is one more step in the authoritarian drift. The United States Supreme Court-majority of conservative-gave its green light on Monday to the Trump administration to continue the dismantling of the Department of Education, started in March. The President of the United States wishes a reduction of almost 50 % of the ministry’s workforce, and that Education is now a prerogative mainly falling under the 50 American states, and more at all of the federal state. But such a reform should have normally had to be validated and voted by the Congress. Once again, the billionaire applies to bypassing the law to establish his authority, and dismantle American democracy by play.
While the American leader had signed his decree, on March 20, about twenty states as well as teaching unions had challenged this decision in court. The presidential decree was then suspended in May by a federal judge from Boston. But this Monday, July 14, the highest American jurisdiction – made up of nine judges including six conservatives – announced the
