The war on federal workers, and workers in general, by the Trump Administration rages on nine months after the president first took office.

The latest assault is against federal workers amid the government shutdown, as the administration sent pink slip notifications to over 4,000 workers.

And as has become custom, a federal judge has stepped in to block a Trump order.

“The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws,” San Francisco U.S. District Court Judge Susan Yvonne Illston said as she issued the temporary restraining order.

“You can’t do this in a nation of laws,” she said. “And we have laws here, and the things that are being articulated here are not within the law.”

NBC reports that, “Shortly before Illston issued her order blocking layoffs, White House Budget Director Russell Vought, during an interview on ‘The Charlie Kirk Show,’ said that he expected that ‘north of 10,000’ federal jobs would be cut because of their shutdown.