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Trump slams California for lawsuit against border emergency declaration

By KATIE GALIOTO

President Donald Trump took a swing at California on Tuesday morning with tweets criticizing the state for leading the legal charge against his efforts to fund a border wall by declaring a national emergency.

“As I predicted, 16 states, led mostly by Open Border Democrats and the Radical Left, have filed a lawsuit in, of course, the 9th Circuit,” Trump tweeted.

The president forecast legal challenges when he announced his use of emergency powers during a White House news conference Friday, when he called the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit “disgraceful.” The West Coast court is home to some of the country’s most left-leaning jurists and has become a strategic spot for cases against the Trump administration.

The lawsuit, which was filed Monday, calls the emergency declaration a “manufactured crisis” structured to redirect federal dollars toward the construction of the border wall Trump has promised since his campaign.

In his tweets, Trump also slammed California for its plans to build a high-speed rail train, a project that’s drawn national attention in recent weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom said in his State of the State address that construction of the full route — which would have connected San Francisco to Los Angeles — would not be feasible due to climbing costs and logistical challenges.

“The failed Fast Train project in California, where the cost overruns are becoming world record setting, is hundreds of times more expensive than the desperately needed Wall!” Trump tweeted.