Former Idaho congressmen join effort to block President Trump's border wall
Two former Democratic Idaho congressmen, Larry LaRocco and Walt Minnick, have joined a bipartisan group of more than 100 former members of Congress to urge a California court to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border.
“My love of country, reverence for the U.S. Constitution and belief in the rule of law did not end when I finished my service in the U.S. House of Representatives,” LaRocco told the Statesman. “We must all speak out when we believe American values are being tossed aside.”
LaRocco served in Congress from 1991 to 1995; Minnick served from 2009 to 2011. Both represented the 1st Congressional District comprising western and northern Idaho.
LaRocco and Minnick last week joined a lawsuit filed in February by California and 19 other states alleging it was unconstitutional for Trump to declare a national emergency to unlock money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border after Congress refused to appropriate money for that purpose.
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