This evening, a federal district judge ruled against a lawsuit brought by 14 attorneys

general, alleging that Trump violated the Constitution by granting Elon Musk what they called

unchecked power. In the ruling, Judge Tanya Chutkin said, quote, the court finds that

plaintiffs have not carried their burden of showing that they will suffer imminent, irreparable harm

absent a temporary restraining order. For more on this, I'm joined now by Arizona Attorney General

Chris Mays, one of the plaintiffs of the suit. Attorney General, welcome to the News Hour. Thanks for

being with us. Thanks, Tomna. Thanks for having me. Let's just begin with your reaction to the ruling this

evening. Well, your reaction to the ruling this evening.

Well, listen, basically the ruling that the judge made in this case essentially had a lot of great language for us.

And this is just the first step in what will be a long process.

She did, as you noted, deny the TRO, the temporary restraining order,

but the lawsuit moves forward. And we now have the opportunity to do what she has asked us to do,

which is to provide additional evidence that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are violating the

Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, that he is essentially running amok

in the federal government, and he is doing great harm to Americans.

And I would just read from her order, which says

the plaintiffs, that means the states legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked

authority of an unelected official and an entity that was not created by Congress. And that is what,

that's actually exactly what we are stating,

that the Appointments Clause has been violated. It is being violated and that this is another

example of a violation of the separation of powers.

So you are arguing in your lawsuit, we should say, as you mentioned, the violation of the

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