The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and allow the dramatic staffing cuts it has tried to make at the U.S. Department of Education.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the court on Friday to lift an injunction issued last month by a federal judge in Massachusetts and for a broader legal pause until the justices can resolve the matter.

At issue is a May 22 preliminary injunction by District Court Judge Myong J. Joun, blocking President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon from carrying out an executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department . Joun also ordered the administration "to restore the Department to the status quo" and, more specifically, to reinstate roughly 1,400 employees who were told in March they would lo

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