The Supreme Court on Monday said President Donald Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court.

The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would require the Department of Education to reinstate […]

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

When the Supreme Court overturns rulings without offering any explanation, it is simply wielding raw power. And raw power without reason is the very essence of arbitrariness. Arbitrariness, in

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

The majority did not explain its decision in the brief, unsigned order. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress “by firing all those necessary to carry them out.”

After a federal judge in Los Angeles barred “roving patrols” by immigration agents in seven California counties, the Trump administration asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to resume operations that lawyers for the state have argued are unconstitutional.

Donald Trump's Supreme Court conservatives have given him the green light to destroy the Department of Education while the legality of his doing so continues to be litigated. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan talks with Jen Psaki about the importance of Education Department funding to the most vulnerable populations in the United States,