The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.

The suit from 20 states and the District of Columbia comes two days after the federal agency fired more than 1,300 employees.

A judge in Maryland has blocked for now the mass firings of probationary federal workers and ordered thousands of fired probationary workers to be reinstated, marking the second decision of its kind in a day.

In separate rulings, judges in Maryland and California ordered the reinstatement of probationary workers fired last month across many agencies.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies