In the Department of Education case, the Court summarily throttled a temporary lower court ruling that prevented Trump from slashing more than a third of the Department’s 4,100 workers and shifting some functions elsewhere as litigation plays out in the lower courts.

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court paused a lower court order that had reinstated 1,400 Education Department employees laid off by the Trump's administration.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.