The Trump administration defied a federal judge from Massachusetts who said the deportation of several men to South Sudan violated a court order.

A federal judge has issued a scathing order requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to put a hold on its plans to fire tens of thousands of federal employees while the mass layoffs are challenged in court.

A federal judge said late Thursday that she will continue to halt President Donald Trump’s orders for mass terminations at several agencies, handing down a preliminary injunction that follows up the temporary restraining order she issued earlier this month.