BORDER/CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra plans to announce a lawsuit Wednesday [9-20-17] on behalf of the state that will challenge President Trump’s proposal to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, a project Becerra has called ‘medieval.’
Becerra is scheduled to travel to Border Field State Park near San Diego to announce plans to sue over construction of border wall projects in San Diego and Imperial counties.
The state’s lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration has failed to comply with federal and state environmental laws, relied on federal statutes that don’t authorize the proposed projects and violated the U.S. Constitution’s separation-of-powers doctrine.
The lawsuit also says the Department of Homeland Security decided to build the walls without complying with the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
As a result, the lawsuit alleges, the federal government lacks proper environmental analysis of the impact of 400-foot prototypes of the wall currently planned, as well as the 2,000-mile-long final wall.
The Democratic attorney general has been critical of the wall for months, including in April during an appearance on ABC’s ‘This Week.’…
He also accused Trump at the time of reneging on his promise to have Mexico pay for the wall.”
-Patrick McGreevy and Jazmine Ulloa, “California to sue Trump administration over plan for U.S.-Mexico border wall,” The Los Angeles Times online, Sept. 20, 2017 06:00am