Supreme Court allows Trump's Education Department layoffs
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The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to move forward with efforts to dismantle the Education Department. Here's what the agency does.
"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.