{"id":2443909,"date":"2025-06-06T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-layoffs-at-education-department\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:02:40","slug":"trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-layoffs-at-education-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-layoffs-at-education-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow layoffs at Education Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-layoffs-at-education-department%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2443909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump governance has petitioned the Supreme Court for permission too move forward with plans to lay off around 1,400 employees at the Department of Education. A U.S. District Court previously paused these layoffs, asserting that the Trump administration&#8217;s actions overstepped its authority. Solicitor General D. john Sauer argues that the court&#8217;s decision improperly impedes the Executive Branch&#8217;s power to manage its operations and that the reinstatement of the laid-off employees would cause &#8220;irreparable harm&#8221; to the administration. He contends that not all terminated employees are essential for the Department of Education&#8217;s functions. The appeal is part of a larger trend of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/six-ways-trump-upended-federal-status-quo-in-one-week-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Six ways Trump upended federal status quo in one week - Washington Examiner\">trump administration seeking<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >lift lower court restrictions<\/a> on its efforts to reduce the federal workforce across several agencies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow layoffs at Education Department<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2140602\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump administration\">Trump administration<\/a> asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump administration\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Friday for permission to proceed with plans to lay off hundreds of employees at the Department of Education after lower courts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3419522\/judge-blocks-trump-education-department-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"paused those actions\">paused those actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General D. John Sauer called the pause on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s actions an attempt by the district court to thwart &ldquo;the Executive Branch&rsquo;s authority to manage the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Department of Education\">Department of Education<\/a> despite lacking jurisdiction to second-guess the Executive&rsquo;s internal management decisions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3432353\/supreme-court-tosses-mexico-lawsuit-against-us-gunmakers\/\">Supreme Court tosses Mexico&#8217;s lawsuit against US gunmakers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3432194\/supreme-court-reverse-discrimination-rules-challenges-should-not-face-higher-standard\/\">Supreme Court rules &#8216;reverse discrimination&#8217; challenges should not face higher standard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3432255\/supreme-court-catholic-charities-religious-freedom-case\/\">Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in religious freedom case<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;In this case, the district court is attempting to prevent the Department from restructuring its workforce, despite lacking jurisdiction several times over. Intervention is again warranted,&rdquo; Sauer said in the application to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>A judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts paused Trump&rsquo;s March executive order seeking to reduce the Education Department&rsquo;s workforce by roughly 1,400 positions, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-rules-north-carolina-abortion-ban-unconstitutional\/\" title=\"Court Rules North Carolina Abortion Ban Unconstitutional\">federal appeals court upheld<\/a> the pause earlier this week. The March executive order signed by Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3353848\/trump-executive-order-shut-down-education-department-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"promised to gut the department\">promised to effectively gut the department<\/a>, which was created in 1979, and significantly reduce its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Sauer argued to the high court that restoring the jobs of the nearly 1,400 people the Trump administration laid off would inflict &ldquo;irreparable harm&rdquo; on the administration, &ldquo;insofar as it requires the government to pay salaries it cannot possibly recoup.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also disputed the claim by the Democratic states suing to block the executive order that the layoffs include people necessary for the department to function as congressionally mandated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The injunction rests on the untenable assumption that every terminated employee is necessary to perform the Department of Education&rsquo;s statutory functions,&rdquo; Sauer argued. &ldquo;That injunction effectively appoints the district court to a Cabinet role and bars the Executive Branch from terminating anyone, even though respondents conceded that some other RIFs would plainly be proper.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Myong Joun sided with the Democratic states, challenging the attempted layoffs at the Education Department. He argued that the Trump administration&rsquo;s actions were not purely a discretionary use of executive power over the department.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit denied the Trump administration&rsquo;s request to stay the lower court&rsquo;s ruling on Wednesday, ruling that Justice Department lawyers had not &ldquo;shown that the public&rsquo;s interest lies in permitting a major federal department to be unlawfully disabled from performing its statutorily assigned functions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The petition to the high court is the latest request by the Trump administration to lift a lower court&rsquo;s pause of a Trump executive order seeking to reduce the size of the federal workforce.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3414469\/supreme-court-top-cases-2024-2025-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TOP CASES THE SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE AT THE END OF THIS TERM\">TOP CASES THE SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE AT THE END OF THIS TERM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Sauer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3428439\/trump-supreme-court-stop-federal-workforce-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"asked the Supreme Court to allow the administration to proceed\">asked the Supreme Court to allow the administration to proceed<\/a> with sweeping reductions in force across various federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The significant number of pauses of Trump administration actions granted by lower courts has&nbsp;led to the administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3423724\/trump-doj-fills-supreme-court-emergency-docket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asking the Supreme Court for urgent actions<\/a>&nbsp;numerous times, causing the high court&rsquo;s emergency docket to fill up with pleas from the administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" 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