WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let him resume dismantling the Department of Education, seeking to lift a lower court order that requires the reinstatement of as many as 1,400 workers.

The emergency request Friday challenges a federal district judge’s conclusion that Trump’s effort to shut down the department would leave it unable to perform duties required under U.S. law, including managing federal student loans, aiding state education programs and enforcing civil rights law.

“The Constitution vests the executive branch, not district courts, with the authority to make judgments about how many employees are needed to carry out an agency’s statutory functions, and whom they should be,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in the filing. Sauer is th

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