In addition to ACLU and CREW, the state of California and some Texas landowners are suing.
[California Governor Gavin] Newsom said in a statement hours after the president’s declaration. “Our message back to the White House is simple and clear: California will see you in court.”
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at a news conference that Trump does not have the power to "act frivolously" to redirect federal funding away from where it has been appropriated by Congress, which has "power to direct dollars, the power of the purse."
"This is not 9/11," he said. "This is not the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. This is a president showing his disdain for the rule of law and the U.S. constitution."
The Hill
Three Texas landowners and an environmental group have filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration aimed at freeing up billions of dollars to build a wall along the US border with Mexico, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen (PC) has said.
The lawsuit, brought in federal court in the District of Columbia on Friday, claims the south Texas landowners were told by the US government that it would seek to build a border wall on their properties if money for the project was available in 2019, according to a press release from PC.
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Three of the plaintiffs on the lawsuit are private citizens in Texas's Starr County.
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The fourth plaintiff is the Frontera Audobon Society, a six-hectare nonprofit that acts as a "haven for birds, butterflies and other wildlife".
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