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If that changes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote, plaintiffs are “free to return to federal court to seek any proper emergency remedy.”

“An American president is not a king… his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute,” she wrote.

Trump’s updated complaint included CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global, as a defendant and added Jackson, Trump’s former doctor, as a plaintiff because he lives in Texas, where the case was filed.

An attorney for the plaintiffs, Elizabeth Mitchell, said the audit validates the core allegations in the lawsuit, reinforcing the urgent need for systemic reform.

Later that evening, plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits alerted the court about Trump's speech as new evidence that Musk, not Gleason, actually runs DOGE.