Overview

• A conservative majority on the Supreme Court stayed a preliminary injunction by Judge Myong Joun that had blocked the mass layoffs.
• The decision allows President Trump’s March executive order to proceed with the planned reduction of the Education Department’s workforce.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan dissented, warning the court was facilitating potentially lawless executive action.
• Education groups, school districts and the American Federation of Teachers have active lawsuits claiming the cuts amount to an unlawful shutdown of the agency.
• Further proceedings in federal lower courts will decide whether the administration’s effort to decentralize education functions complies with congressional authority.