The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday for permission to proceed with plans to lay off hundreds of employees at the Department of Education after lower courts paused those actions .

Solicitor General D. John Sauer called the pause on President Donald Trump’s actions an attempt by the district court to thwart “the Executive Branch’s authority to manage the Department of Education despite lacking jurisdiction to second-guess the Executive’s internal management decisions.”

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