New Delhi, May 22 -- In a setback to Donald Trump, a federal judge on Thursday blocked US President's executive order to dismantle the education department.

US District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction.

The judge ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of the March 11 announcement, stopping the Trump administration from carrying out plans announced in March, reported AP.

However, the administration said it would challenge the ruling.

"Today's order means that the Trump administration's disastrous mass firings of career civil servants are blocked while this wildly disruptive and unlawful agency action is litigated," AP quoted Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democra...