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.

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. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

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.