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One question: What took them so long?
"The president does have broad authority. But he does not have authority to violate the Constitution," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday.
by Jane C. Timm, NBC News — Feb 18, 2019
California and 15 other states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.
“The president admitted that there’s not a basis for the declaration. He admitted there’s no crisis at the border. He’s now trying to rob funds that were allocated by Congress legally to the various states and people of our states,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday afternoon before the suit was filed.
“The separation of powers is being violated, we’re going to go out there and make sure that Donald Trump cannot steal money from the states and people who need them, since we paid the taxpayer dollars to Washington, D.C., to get those services,” he said.
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According to the Washington Post, the other states involved in the suit are New York, Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Oregon. Maine, Minnesota and New Mexico.
It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
One other Question: Why only 16 states joining the law suit?
Don’t red and purple states know that Dems have our own “national emergency” issues, that we can claim just like Trump?
Emergencies like Climate Change.
Emergencies like Health Care for All.
Emergencies like the scourge of Mass Shootings.
Emergencies like structural bias in the Justice System.
On second thought, maybe Dems should let Trump have his “national emergency” ???
Payback on this Trump precedent will be the REAL “national emergency” — for the party that thrives on hatred and greed.
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PS. The only “national emergency” we have now is, that Trump is an Idiot.
— per Ann Coulter, holder of that last-gasp ‘presidential veto’.
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