A judge ordered federal agencies to reinstate thousands of workers, calling the Trump administration’s mass terminations a “sham” and ruling them unlawful.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.

WASHINGTON ― Tens of thousands of federal government probationary workers fired in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's sweeping cuts to the federal workforce must be reinstated immediately,