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03/14/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG STATEMENT ON TRUMP VETO OF CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION TO OVERTURN NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION
(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding President Trump's veto of the Congressional resolution to overturn his national emergency declaration:
"We do not have a national emergency. We have a constitutional crisis. Connecticut has joined California and 18 other states in seeking a nationwide injunction to block the President in this illegal end-run around Congress. Bipartisan majorities in both the House and the Senate clearly disapproved of the President's action. Trump did not have to do this—he himself made that clear. Connecticut stands ready to do what is necessary to protect our state interests and the rule of law," said Attorney General Tong.
Connecticut is part of a 20-state coalition led by California challenging President Trump’s unfounded declaration of a national emergency and his attempt to divert funding appropriated by Congress for other purposes. The coalition alleges that the Trump Administration’s emergency declaration and diversion of funds is unconstitutional and otherwise unlawful. The group seeks to block the Trump Administration’s emergency declaration, the unauthorized construction of the border wall, and any illegal diversion of Congressionally-appropriated funds.
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