Immigration,
Government
May 20, 2019
Trump’s emergency wall declaration faces first legal test
The Trump administration's emergency declaration to build a border wall faced its first test Friday as attorneys for 20 states and public interest groups urged a federal judge to temporarily block the project.
OAKLAND -- The Trump administration's emergency declaration to build a border wall faced its first test Friday as attorneys for 20 states and public interest groups urged a federal judge to temporarily block the project.
The president exceeded the scope of his authority and disregarded the interests of Congress by diverting more than $6 billion to fund the proposed thousand-mile wall along the Southern border of Mexico, said a lawy...
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