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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 emergency appeal landed at the high court days after the Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reverse a lower court order that halted mass firings at the department, which was created during the Carter administration. Trump has filed more than a dozen emergency appeals at the Supreme Court since he returned to office in January.

In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the administration argues its effort at the Education Department involves “internal management decisions” and “eliminating discretionary functions that, in the administratio

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