(CNN) — 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.

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