After a layoff of 1,300 people announced Tuesday, the education department will sit at roughly half the 4,100 it had when Donald Trump took office.

AGs from 20 states say the layoffs are so severe that the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.”

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun sided with Colorado and seven other states that had requested a temporary restraining order.

WASHINGTON—A federal judge blocked most of a White House executive order punishing Perkins Coie, saying the administration had put itself at odds with the First Amendment by targeting the law firm based on President Trump’s dislike of its clients’ political positions.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt some of the penalties it levied on a law firm linked to Democratic causes that are unpopular with the president. Last week, Trump signed an executive order deeming the firm a national security risk.