The court has supported his administration on issues like immigration, federal employee dismissals and military policies.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

Paulette Jiles, a horse-riding poet and historical novelist who evoked the grit and grandeur of the American West in “News of the World,” died at 82. A fossil of a young carnivorous dinosaur fetched over $30 million at Sotheby’s. The auction house had estimated its value at $4 million to $6 million.

OPM’s guidance offers some leeway to the Trump administration’s policy requiring most federal employees to work in the office full time.

Lower-court judges have already blocked several Trump's policies including an asylum ban at the US-Mexico border.

Scholars and practitioners examine the Court’s most important regulatory decisions of this past term.

Rashida Tlaib, a left-wing Democrat from Detroit, scolded the Supreme Court for allowing President Donald Trump to proceed, pending further developments, with layoffs and reorganization in federal agencies.

Seven lawyers who spoke with Reuters cited a punishing workload and the need to defend policies that some felt were not legally justifiable among the key reasons for the wave of departures.

The majority did not explain its decision in the brief, unsigned order. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress “by firing all those necessary to carry them out.”

The Education Department has pledged to carry out required functions, but questions remain about its plan for contending with the loss of staff.