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Michigan joins lawsuit challenging border wall declaration

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Jan 25, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Attorney General Dana Nessel says Michigan has joined a lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed the lawsuit Monday and says 16 states allege the Trump administration’s action violates the Constitution

Also joining the lawsuit are the attorneys general of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Virginia.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says in a statement that Trump’s “fake emergency is a publicity stunt that will raid our federal funding and cost us millions.”

Trump declared a national emergency to fulfill his promise of completing the wall.

The move allows the president to bypass Congress to use money from the Pentagon and other budgets.

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Scott Davis February 20, 2019 at 11:22 am

As a citizen of Michigan state and one that has heard the promises to secure the borders ever since the big amnesty of the 1986, I believe that date is correct, by all administration’s and Congresses since then, I am appalled by the new AG decision to join the group of states suing to stop it from getting done.
Shame on this bald attempt to keep our borders unsecured. It’s all political nonsense. Title 10, Section 284, I think is the correct place to see that the President has the right to do exactly what he’s doing.
Hey Congress, you gave him the legal right to do it. Hey all you liberal AGs, you better read the law. It’s obvious you only forgot about this part.

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