The Trump administration on Friday implored the U.S. Supreme Court to bypass a lower court order barring the Department of Education (DOE) from going through with proposed mass firings and transfers of various programs, like student loan portfolios, to other agencies.

In a 40-page application for a stay , the U.S. Department of Justice, represented by Solicitor General D. John Sauer, complained the lower court in question lacked the jurisdiction to issue the preliminary injunction at issue in the present case. This strategy is of a piece with an enduring argument leveled by the second Trump administration in its ongoing crusade against national injunctive relief as a concept.

“For the second time in three months, the same district court has thwarted the Executive Branch’s authority to ma

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