The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to fire hundreds of Department of Education employees, a move that advances President Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle the department. The high court’s decision in McMahon v. State of New York was issued 6-3 along ideological lines.

“Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision is a slap in the face to students, families, educators, and taxpayers across America,” said Sen. Lindsey Williams, D-Pittsburgh. While the court majority did not issue an explanation of their decision, Justice Sotomayor, who was among the three opposing justices, wrote a dissenting opinion on the matter.

President Donald Trump has achieved significant victories in the Supreme Court during the first six months of his second term.

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

Kansans should reject a rigged system run by a small group of elite professionals and political insiders who pretend to be above politics, and in its stead adopt a transparent system that gives voters a voice in selecting those who are the final arbiters of the meaning and application of the laws by which they are governed.

Donald Trump's Supreme Court conservatives have given him the green light to destroy the Department of Education while the legality of his doing so continues to be litigated. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan talks with Jen Psaki about the importance of Education Department funding to the most vulnerable populations in the United States,