President Donald Trump is once again finding his agenda thwarted by a federal judge as a new ruling blocks the firing of federal probationary workers in certain states.

In a case brought by attorneys general in 19 states and the District of Columbia, U.S. District Court Judge James Breda ruled Tuesday that 18 federal agencies had to “undo” the president’s order affecting thousands of federal employees and their “purported termination” by Tuesday, April 8.

Bredar, who was appointed by former President Obama. had “previously ordered officials to temporarily reinstate probationary employees fired at 18 agencies, no matter where they physically worked,” according to The Hill, but his latest ruling was not extended nationwide.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, and Maryland” are among the states impacted by the least decision, as are Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.

Introducing Judge James Bredar. On March 18 (Reuters) this judge ruled against the president and ordered that 25000 terminations were likely illegal. Terminating probation employees are illegal? On April 21, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Bredar to be a United States… pic.twitter.com/zXCXqJYXGv

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Bredar’s latest preliminary injunction includes two additional agencies, the Defense Department and the Office of Personnel Management, but “limits the reinstatements to only those employees whose ‘duty station’ is within Washington, D.C., and the 19 states that are suing,” The Hill noted.

“Only states have sued here, and only to vindicate their interests as states. They are not proxies for the workers,” Bredar wrote.

“Presumably well informed, each state is entitled to decide for itself whether it will seek relief in the present circumstances; it would be inappropriate for the Court to fashion relief having the consequence that decisions properly reserved to the non-party states are effectively, and unnecessarily overruled by this Court,” he continued.

“The government can terminate probationary employees en masse…. but when it does so it must follow certain laws and regulations,” the judge wrote.

“Recently, government agencies executed a series of mass terminations, but when they did so, on the record before the Court, they failed to follow mandatory RIF procedures,” he added, referring to a “reduction in force.”

With only three months into his second term as president, Trump has been hit with about 15 wide-ranging court orders as judges impede his agenda. This number, according to Fox News, is “more than former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden received during their entire tenures.”

“If you look at the recent reports from various polling firms, clearly a majority of Americans believe that no single district judge should be able to issue a nationwide injunction,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told a House Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday.

“Look, my judgment is as a historian. This is clearly a judicial coup d’etat. You don’t have this many different judges issue this many different nationwide injunctions – all of them coming from the same ideological and political background – and just assume it’s all random efforts of justice,” he said.

“This is a clear effort to stop the scale of change that President Trump represents,” Gingrich added.

Republicans have vowed to stop the “activist judges” from blocking Trump’s efforts to deliver on his promises to Americans.