U.S. District Judge William Alsup delivered a furious rebuke to the Trump administration over its mass purge of civil servants during an extraordinary hearing in San Francisco on Thursday. Alsup condemned the terminations of thousands of probationary workers as a "sham" designed to circumvent the law, accused the Justice Department of filing a bogus declaration, and declared in open court that he felt "misled" by dishonest government lawyers. He closed the hearing with a sweeping order compelling the administration to rehire thousands of workers whom it had unlawfully laid off.