Want to Challenge Trump’s Border Wall ‘Emergency’? Get in Line

  • Lawmakers, landowners and states each have reasons to sue
  • Trump may succeed because no one knows exact ‘boundaries’
Trump Says He'll Declare Emergency on the Southern Border
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Now that he has declared a “national emergency,” all that stands between President Donald Trump and the money he wants to pay for his promised border wall is the American judiciary. And the Constitution. And the attorneys general of California, Nevada, New Mexico and New York. And a vast array of land owners and local governments.

Oh, and Congress.