The state of California, for instance, announced its intention to sue the declaration — “California will see you in court,” said a top official — and the American Civil Liberties Union announced its lawsuit calling the emergency order “blatantly illegal”. President Donald Trump announced Friday he was declaring a national emergency “because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people, and it’s unacceptable”. The emergency declaration will enable the administration to find money to build the wall, over and above $1.375 billion allocated in a compromise spending bill passed by Congress. The president had said he anticipated being sued, and the lawsuits followed hours after as he left town for Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort for the weekend. Nobel claimsPresident Trump claimed Friday he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Source: Hindustan Times February 17, 2019 02:37 UTC