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, for now, with mass firings that slashed nearly half of the agency's workforce in March as well as other actions,

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

In a divided ruling, the court hands the executive branch power to dismantle a federal agency, over fierce liberal dissent warning of harm to students and the Constitution alike.