On Thursday, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered multiple agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary employees fired as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to shrink the federal workforce, calling the terminations a “sham.”

U.S. District Judge William Alsup, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, ruled that the Office of Personnel Management and its acting director, Dennis Ezell, unlawfully directed mass firings across six agencies, including the Departments of Defense, the Treasury, Energy, Agriculture, the Interior, and Veterans Affairs.