Trump’s Border Wall ‘Emergency’ Faces First Legal Challenge
- Public Citizen alleges president is overstepping his authority
- More lawsuits are expected over plan for $8 billion project
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A nonprofit sued to block President Donald Trump from diverting funds from the federal budget to spend about $8 billion on his promised border wall, hours after he declared a national emergency.
Public Citizen, a consumer rights think tank, filed the complaint Friday evening on behalf of a nature preserve and three landowners in southern Texas who’ve been told the government will seek to build sections of the wall on their property once funding becomes available.