The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to start mass layoffs at the Department of Education on Monday, lifting a lower court order that paused the layoffs while a challenge played out.
The unsigned, unexplained order from the justices Monday lifted a May order from Judge Myong J. Joun of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts that paused the administration’s plans to lay off more than 1,000 employees as part of an attempted shutdown of the Education Department.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon praised the decision in a statement Monday, saying it recognized President Donald Trump as “the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of federal agencies.”
