At least 13 states will join the lawsuit challenging Trump's emergency declaration.

California and at least a dozen other states will join a lawsuit to challenge President Donald Trump's national emergency, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday. "The president admitted that the statement was unfounded, he acknowledged that there was no crisis at the border, he is now trying to steal funds legally allocated by the Congress to the various states and the people of our states, "Becerra told MSNBC. "The separation of powers is being violated, we will go there and ensure that Donald Trump can not steal money from the states and people who need it, since we have paid taxpayers' money in Washington, DC to obtain these services. "

Speaking on CNN, Becerra said the lawsuit was imminent. "We should drop in the course of the day," said Becerra. "We will try to prevent the president from violating the Constitution, the separation of powers, to steal money legally from Americans and states allocated by Congress."

This is the latest attempt to challenge Trump's emergency declaration in court. Previously, three environmental and environmental defense groups had joined a lawsuit against the declaration of emergency. The Center for Biodiversity and the Wildlife and Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint over the weekend claiming that the White House did not have the authority to use emergency funds to build a wall along the Mexican border. "The only urgency here is Trump's assault on the Constitution," said Brian Segee, a lawyer at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement. "The separation of powers is at the heart of our democracy and the power of the stock market is an essential control for the president. Trump's authoritarian attempt to build his destructive border wall is a flagrant abuse of this constitutional structure. If it succeeds, it will be a disaster for communities and wildlife along the border, including some of the most endangered species in our country. That happened after the rights group Public Citizen also filed a lawsuit on behalf of three Texas landowners and an environmental group. The American Civil Liberties Union has also announced that it is preparing a lawsuit under which Trump does not have the power to redirect taxpayers' money for the construction of a wall.

All trials should not surprise the White House. In fact, Trump said he hoped to be sued when he announced the emergency declaration on Friday, but he was confident his administration would eventually break free of any legal challenge. "And I'll sign the last papers as soon as I'm in the oval office. And we will have a national emergency, then we will be sued, and they will sue us in the ninth circuit, even if it should not be there, "said Trump. "And we will eventually have a bad decision, and then we will have another bad decision. And then we will meet at the Supreme Court, and hope we are shaken enough. And we will win in the Supreme Court, just like the ban. "

Congress, where legislators could present a joint resolution to end the declaration, could also challenge the emergency declaration. But White House advisor Stephen Miller hinted that Trump would not hesitate to oppose the first veto of his presidency if the legislator tried to overturn his emergency declaration. "Clearly, the president will protect his national emergency declaration," Miller said. Fox News Sunday.