Judge says the fired employees must be reinstated and Trump is an ignorant buffoon.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the jobs of probationary federal employees across multiple agencies, blasting the procedure behind their mass firings as a “sham.”

Ruling from the bench in a San Francisco courthouse, US District Judge William Alsup said the Office of Personnel Management — the federal government’s human resources department — had no basis for claiming the employees were fired for “performance” issues.

Alsup, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, said the explanation was a “gimmick” to circumvent legal requirements for laying off federal employees.

As was always obvious.

“It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said, according to Politico.

The firings were part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to shrink the federal workforce, led by the White House’s DOGE office.

Which is how we knew it was a lie. Trump and Musk were shouting about mass firings before they got in the door, so of course it wasn’t about “performance.”

His new ruling orders the departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs to offer fired probationary employees their jobs back.

Now do the rest of them.