House panel launches probe into Donald Trump’s emergency declaration
The Republican president's move, circumventing Congress, seeks to make good on a 2016 presidential campaign pledge to build a border wall
Washington — President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the US-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the US Constitution. The Republican president's move, circumventing Congress, seeks to make good on a 2016 presidential campaign pledge to build a border wall that Trump insists is necessary to curtail illegal immigration he blames for bringing crime and drugs into the United States. Within hours, the action was challenged in a lawsuit filed on behalf of three Texas landowners, saying that Trump's declaration violates the US Constitution and that the planned wall would infringe on their property rights. Both California and New York said that they, too, planned to file lawsuits. Hours after Trump's announcement, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee said it had launched an investigation into the emergency declaration. In a letter ...
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