“The president does have broad authority. But he does not have authority to violate the Constitution,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday.
California and 15 other states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.
“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,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday afternoon before the suit was filed.
“The separation of powers is being violated, we’re going to go out there and make sure that Donald Trump cannot steal money from the states and people who need them, since we paid the taxpayer dollars to Washington, D.C., to get those services,” he said.
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BREAKING: California and 15 other states sue President Trump, claiming his national emergency to get border wall funding is unconstitutional. https://t.co/Yv4nfxJ16G
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