The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Trump to destroy the Department of Education. Until Monday, a lower court’s injunction had barred the administration from firing about half of the department’s roughly 4,000 employees—halting a move that Education Secretary Linda McMahon called “the first step in a total shutdown” of the department—while the layoffs were challenged in court. On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority granted the administration’s emergency request to lift