In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court paused a lower court order that had reinstated 1,400 Education ...

In March, Trump issued an executive order aimed at eliminating the Education Department, which he promised to do during the campaign. McMahon had already begun cutting the department’s headcount by ...

The Trump administration appealed a court order blocking mass layoffs and other changes at the Education Department.

A March 20 Executive Order to “facilitate the closure of the Department of Education” has been contested in federal court for four months. Its fate remains unsettled. At issue are 1,378 staff put on ...

By allowing Trump to ignore the law and crush the Education Department, the conservative justices let the president do ...

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court order directing the Trump administration to hire back scores of employees who had been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

Now, Trump and McMahon are free to execute the layoffs and break up the department’s work among other federal agencies. Trump ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, part of his bid to shrink the federal government's role ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court today cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, part of his bid to shrink the federal ...