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Michigan AG joins suit against Trump, calls national emergency a 'publicity stunt'

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Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel joined a federal lawsuit with 15 other states in opposition to President Donald Trump's "national emergency" declaration to get funds to pay for a Mexican border wall.

"This fake emergency is a publicity stunt that will raid our federal funding and cost us millions," Nessel said in a statement. "We cannot in good conscience stand by while our president seeks to undermine our own efforts to keep our residents safe and our military strong."

Trump called for the national emergency on Friday to bypass Congress, which rejected full funding to build the wall.…

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