Trump Can Resume Education Department Civil Rights Unit Cuts (1)

The US Department of Education can resume a planned reduction-in-force for its Office for Civil Rights, the First Circuit said, granting the agency’s request to proceed while it appeals a lower court order blocking the firings.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit noted it was following the lead of the US Supreme Court, which in July reversed a pause to the Trump administration’s plans to slash the department workforce by half in a separate lawsuit the three-judge panel referred to as the McMahon case.

The case appears to be “effectively a subset of McMahon” and is sufficiently ...