California AG: a minimum of thirteen States Suing Over Trump's National Emergency

California AG: a minimum of thirteen States Suing Over Trump's National Emergency

California and a dozen other states are filing a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday.

“The president admitted that there’s not a basis for the declaration. He admitted there’s no crisis at the border. He’s now trying to rob funds that were allocated by Congress legally to the various states and people of our states,” Becerra told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday afternoon.

“The separation of powers is being desecrated, we’re planning to go out there and make certain that Donald Trump cannot steal cash from the states and other people who need them, since we paid the remunerator dollars to Washington, D.C., to get those services,” he said.

Trump aforementioned on Fri that he would bypass Congress by declaring a national emergency to create a border wall along the nation’s southern border, after a protracted battle in which Congress has repeatedly declined to grant the president billions to make border barriers.