President Donald Trump and his administration scored another huge win thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court after they were cleared to continue with their plan to significantly reduce government waste and spending.

According to the Washington Examiner, Trump's Department of Education was cleared by the high court to proceed with the layoffs of hundreds of employees in a 6-3 decision by the conservative majority court. 

The ruling stays a lower court's block on the firings -- marking a continued trend of the Supreme Court overruling seemingly activist-level federal judges and courts bent on stopping the Trump administration's policies.

Trump and his administration have enjoyed multiple high-level Supreme Court wins over the past few months, clearing the path to cutting down on a bloated U.S. government.

What happened?

Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court ruling came down on party lines, with all three liberal high court justices dissenting.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote what was described as a "lengthy" dissent to the order. In it she accused the Trump administration of attempting to unilaterally "eliminate a Cabinet-level agency established by Congress."

Sotomayor and her fellow liberal colleagues argued that only Congress has the authority to essentially abolish a Cabinet-level department.

"When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it," Sotomayor wrote in her dissent.

She added, "It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out,"

"The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave. Unable to join in this misuse of our emergency docket, I respectfully dissent."

Gutting the department

Trump issued an executive order in March that called for the firing of some 1,400 DOE employees, which essentially ends the department's existence.

The EO was immediately challenged in the court system, and activist federal judges were all over it, doing everything they could to halt the process.

The outlet noted:

A judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts paused Trump’s order, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit denied a request to stay the lower court's order.

The Supreme Court continues to pay dividends for Trump and his administration, and will hopefully continue to do so.