The bill was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, who subsequently executed the law by standing up the new Cabinet-level agency. Every president since then, whether they supported the existence of the agency or not,

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 yet another unsigned ruling, the conservative majority treated a department closure like it’s just some minor layoffs.

Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.

The Supreme Court's ruling on universal injunctions brings Trump closer to changing how citizenship is granted to babies born to noncitizens in the U.S.

A federal judge again barred President Donald Trump 's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.

Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.

The Tuesday decision said that Trump's executive order directing agencies to develop workforce reduction plans is likely lawful.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy, for now. The court in its unsigned ruling said

The Education Department has pledged to carry out required functions, but questions remain about its plan for contending with the loss of staff.