The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday it will begin a "phased pause" in operations at contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide. The pause of operations at all contractor-operated centers will occur by June 30.

President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to allow officials to gut the Department of Education, a key priority for the president that has been stymied by a series of lower court decisions.

The office is tied to a reorganization plan of the State Department to focus on removing immigrants, taking its name from a far-right European term.

The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning asking the justices to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that requires the Department of Education to

A federal judge in Massachusetts had blocked the Trump administration from laying off more than 1,300 employees at the Department of Education.

The Trump administration has escalated its fight with Columbia University, declaring the school doesn’t meet accreditation standards because of its failure to protect Jewish students.

Layoffs of state public health workers have been rescinded by the Minnesota Department of Health two months after it issued them in response to federal grant cuts by the Trump administration. Ongoing legal challenges to the grant cuts allowed the state to preserve its workforce,