Overview

• The court’s emergency order overturned a Massachusetts judge’s injunction that had paused mass dismissals at the Department of Education.
• The Trump administration plans to cut roughly one-third of the department’s workforce this year, totaling nearly 1,400 employees.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan dissented from the majority decision.
• A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general, school districts and teachers’ unions argues the layoffs will disrupt student aid oversight and civil rights enforcement.
• Separate lawsuits remain pending in lower courts as opponents seek to halt the restructuring plan’s implementation.