A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across the departments of Veterans Affairs,

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

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