The Trump administration is moving full-steam ahead with plans to gut the Education Department after getting a green light from the Supreme Court. Conservatives are in celebration mode

"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

An ideologically divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. How we got here: The Education Department workers were placed on administrative leave in March and were to stop receiving salaries June 9 before a judge intervened at the request of Democratic-led states,