In the Department of Education case, the Court summarily throttled a temporary lower court ruling that prevented Trump from slashing more than a third of the Department’s 4,100 workers and shifting some functions elsewhere as litigation plays out in the lower courts.

AFTER MONTHS of threatening to fire Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump signaled he was backing off. Trump’s rationale—or pretext, if you prefer—for going after Powell is cost overruns and delays in the $2.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that blocked sweeping layoffs of federal workers at nearly two dozen agencies.