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A coalition of 16 Dem AGs filed suit against Trump over the national emergency declaration, here's the complaint: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5743… This was expected, and is the third lawsuit filed since Trump's Rose Garden announcement Friday, see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… 
This latest case was filed in California — in the 9th Circuit, as Trump predicted. The first two were filed in DC, however
The Dem AGs quote Trump's now-famous line from Friday's press conference: "I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster." On the swift reaction from Dems and liberal lawyers to that remark at the time: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The Dem AGs aren't just challenging the reprogramming of military construction funds per the national emergency — they're also challenging the diversion of money from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund and the DoD counter-drug program
You may have noticed that DC did not join the lawsuit filed by 16 Dem AGs challenging Trump's national emergency declaration and border wall funding plan. A DC AG spox provided the following statement, saying AG Racine "is evaluating how best to support the multi-state effort"
What's noteworthy about DC's absence is that DC AG Karl Racine is co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association. Last week, Racine and Oregon AG Ellen Rosenbaum (who did join the suit) put out a statement about the issue
