The court has supported his administration on issues like immigration, federal employee dismissals and military policies.

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.

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

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

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