A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration , for now, from firing federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown .

The temporary restraining order came five days after the administration issued reduction-in-force notifications to more than 4,000 federal workers.

The order blocks the Trump administration from taking any action to follow through with those workers' termination, or to issue RIFs to other federal employees protected by two unions that filed a lawsuit to prevent the firings.

"The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws," San Francisco U.S. District Court Judge Susan Yvonne Illston told lawyers for the administration on Wednesday at a hearing where she issued the TRO.

"You can't do this in a nation of laws," I

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