President Donald Trump revealed over the last week that he's willing to use some incongruences baked into American law to his advantage, and that threatens to upend America's tradition of civil rights,

The Trump administration asked the justices to set aside an injunction blocking its layoffs of 1,400 Education Department employees.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for mass firings within the Department of Education. Former Data Coordinator in the U.S. Dept. of Education Jason Cottrell, who worked there for more than nine years and was impacted by the DOGE cuts,

Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and disbursing federal funding.

President Trump cheered the cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," saying he "absolutely loves" that Colbert "got fired."

The Trump administration is still sitting on $6.8 billion in authorized and approved Congressional funding for public education.