ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal judge who had ordered the Trump administration to reinstate fired federal probationary employees across the country at more than a dozen agencies has narrowed the scope of his ruling so it now applies to workers in the 19 states and the District of Columbia that challenged the mass dismissals.

The federal judge who ordered the Trump administration last month to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers issued a ruling Tuesday narrowing the scope of his order. Why it matters: The new ruling scales back what was a significant rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to radically reshape the federal government via mass firings and gutting agencies.

The pause is limited to certain states while the case proceeds, narrowing the scope of an earlier order that had paused firings nationwide and led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal employees.

Two days later, he was on a plane heading to El Salvador's most notorious prison. The Trump administration deported Echavez and 237 countrymen labeled as Venezuelan gang members - with no chance to contest the allegations in court.

Trump’s campaign against the major law firms has tested the guardrails of the Constitution as much as any other action since Inauguration Day. Trump has declared his motive: He

The Trump administration erroneously deported a man it alleges is a gang member in Maryland back to El Salvador as part of its March 15 deportation flights despite a judge's ruling prohibiting his removal,