More than a dozen U.S. states sued the Trump administration Tuesday in an effort to block $3.8 billion in 2020 military funding from being diverted to the construction of a U.S. border wall with Mexico.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Oakland, Calif., just days after the American Civil Liberties Union and a national environmental group filed a similar lawsuit over Trump's end-run around Congress, which hasn't given him the funding he wants for the project.
The states say it's aimed at Trump's "flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution."
