The Supreme Court cleared the way for mass Education Department layoffs, bolstering President Donald Trump’s federal workforce cuts while legal battles continue.

We may never see a better Supreme Court of the United States. Since Amy Coney Barrett arrived in late 2020, the six-justice conservative-ish majority has, slowly but surely, set about fixing the court’s biggest mistakes of the last century.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

President Trump on Monday said that Education Secretary Linda McMahon will begin the process of dismantling the Education Department in the wake of the Supreme Court decision allowing the

“Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision is a slap in the face to students, families, educators, and taxpayers across America,” said Sen. Lindsey Williams, D-Pittsburgh. While the court majority did not issue an explanation of their decision, Justice Sotomayor, who was among the three opposing justices, wrote a dissenting opinion on the matter.

President Trump and religious groups emerged as some of the biggest winners from the Supreme Court this term. Losers included LGBTQ+ rights .

As the conservative justices noted, the decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health did not outlaw abortion nationwide. However, it did allow conservative states to do so. Since then, 17 Republican-led states in the South and Midwest have adopted new laws to prohibit most or all abortions.

The United States Federal Courthouse in Austin on June 9, 2023. (Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune, ... These legal fights, which can escalate all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

"The 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court will decide what they want and then try to rationalize it," one First Amendment advocate told Newsweek.