Lawsuits Against Trump's National Emergency Declaration Start Rolling In
A Washington ethics group was the first to sue, and lawmakers say it won’t be the last.
By Lydia O’Connor 02/15/2019 02:19 pm ET Updated 2 hours ago
The first lawsuits challenging the legality of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration began rolling in on Friday, and lawmakers say more are likely to follow.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington came out the gate first with a lawsuit alleging that the Department of Justice failed to provide documents concerning the president’s legal authority to invoke emergency powers over a border wall.
“Americans deserve to know the true basis for President Trump’s unprecedented decision to enact emergency powers to pay for a border wall,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in a statement. “We’re suing because the government has so far failed to produce the requested documents or provide an explanation for their delay.”
The announcement came the same day Trump confirmed he will use the declaration to divert about $3.6 billion the Defense Department had allocated for construction projects and $2.5 billion earmarked for counterdrug activities in order to fund his long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border ― a project Congress refused to fully fund in the spending bill it passed Thursday.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-lawsuit-national-emergency_n_5c65dc88e4b05c889d1d51a7
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