Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department, court rules

By Nate Raymond, Reuters Posted on June 5, 2025

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and requiring it to reinstate employees who were terminated in a mass layoff.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to put on hold an injunction issued by a lower-court judge last week at the urging of several Democratic-led states, school districts and teachers’ unions.