The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Trump to destroy the Department of Education. In May, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued an injunction barring the administration from firing 1,300 of the just over 4,000 employees of the agency.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an injunction against the Trump administration's efforts to gut the Department of Education. The move allows the administration to proceed with mass firings that slashed nearly half of the agency's workforce in March.