The U.S. Supreme Court said President Donald Trump 's administration can proceed with plans to lay off some 1,400 employees at the Department of Education —marking another win for the White House from the conservative-leaning high court.

The majority did not explain its decision in the brief, unsigned order. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress “by firing all those necessary to carry them out.”

After a federal judge in Los Angeles barred “roving patrols” by immigration agents in seven California counties, the Trump administration asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to resume operations that lawyers for the state have argued are unconstitutional.

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

A coalition of more than 20 U.S. states has taken legal action against the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully freezing billions of dollars in federal education funding that supports after-school care,