Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose Justice Sotomayor’s scathing dissent against the Supreme Court’s conservative majority for enabling Trump’s illegal dismantling of the Department of Education, where he fired 1,400 federal employees without congressional authority. They reveal how Sotomayor slammed both Trump and her fellow justices for “rewarding lawlessness” after the Court lifted injunctions that blocked the mass firings, declaring that “when the president openly declares his intent to ignore the law, it’s the judiciary’s solemn duty to say no.” The hosts break down how Trump’s wrestling executive Linda McMahon orchestrated the gutting of student loan services, discrimination enforcement, and basic education functions, leaving hundreds of thousands of borrowers in default with no one to help them. They examine Sotomayor’s constitutional argument that Trump is violating his oath to execute laws passed by Congress, not eliminate them through backdoor workforce destruction. A powerful look at how one justice’s courage exposes the Supreme Court’s complicity in executive tyranny, proving that when democracy hangs in the balance, sometimes a lone dissent becomes the voice of constitutional conscience.