California is leading a coalition of 20 states in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. “California stands united against President Trump’s money-grab to fund his expensive and ineffective wall, which he promised would be paid for by Mexico,” Newsom said in a statement on Friday. “This funding should be spent as it was intended: to support local law enforcement agencies and to fight drug trafficking.”Newsom and Becerra filed Friday’s motion in the Northern District of California as a follow-up to a February lawsuit challenging Trump’s national emergency declaration. The filing comes a day after House leaders voted to authorize a lawsuit against Trump over his national emergency declaration. “The President’s sham emergency declaration and unlawful transfers of funds have undermined our democracy, contravening the vote of the bipartisan Congress,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement on Thursday.

Source: Huffington Post April 05, 2019 18:45 UTC