In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court gave the green light for the Trump administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education, as it seeks to reduce the federal government's role in education in favor of greater control state.

Thus, the administration has the support to move forward with its plan for mass layoffs, which until now was blocked by an order from a lower court.

This is Trump's latest victory in the highest court, where the judges lifted the order of a federal judge that had reinstated almost 1,400 workers affected by layoffs in the Department and blocked the transfer of key administration functions to other federal agencies.

This ruling until now prevented the federal government from carrying out the plan it announced at the end of March to cut, this year alone, a third of the more than 4,100 workers in this department.

The three liberals on the court who disagreed with the measure were Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote a dissenting document joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“When the Executive publicly announces its intention to violate the law and then follows through promise, it is the duty of the Judiciary to restrain that lawlessness, not accelerate it,” Sotomayor wrote. “Two lower courts rose to the occasion, preliminarily enjoining mass dismissals while the litigation remains ongoing. Yet rather than maintain the status quo, this Court now steps in, lifting the injunction and allowing the government to proceed with dismantling the Department. That decision is indefensible.”

The Trump administration’s plan, which admitted it cannot shut down the Department because that falls under Congress, is to dismantle the agency to the point that it retains only core powers related to, for example, the administration of aid, scholarships, or student loans.

The long-term plan is to cut half of the staff working in this department with the idea of eliminating what the Government, which wants to return educational powers to the states, considers a waste of the federal budget.

Meanwhile, for the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, the judicial decision confirms "the obvious, that the president of the United States, as head of the executive branch, has the ultimate authority to make decisions about personnel, administrative organization and the day-to-day operations of federal agencies."

"While today's ruling is an important victory for students and families, it is a shame that the highest court in the country had to intervene to allow President Trump to move forward with the reforms that the Americans elected him to implement using the authorities granted to him by the Constitution," said the education official in a statement.