(Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California sued the Trump administration Wednesday to stop construction of a proposed wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, arguing the federal government is overstepping its authority by waiving environmental reviews and other laws. Xavier Becerra Xavier BecerraTrump administration rolls back Obama-era lightbulb rules 20 states sue Trump administration over Flores rule California leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule MORE, the state's attorney general, announced in a statement that he has filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

With the U.S Mexican border in the background, California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra talks to members of the media after he announced that he'd be filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the building of a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, during a news conference at Border Field State Park in San Diego on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. We would expect to be fully successful in moving forward with our border wall as Congress gives us the money to do so.”

Peter Nunez, former U.S. attorney for the Southern district of California and board member for an immigration restrictionist think tank that has supported Trump’s immigration policies, said he doesn’t think California’s lawsuit will succeed in stopping the border wall. San Francisco: California filed a lawsuit on Wednesday over the Trump administration`s plan to construct a wall along the border with Mexico, adding to the obstacles facing one of the Republican president`s key campaign promises. Becerra’s lawsuit — like one filed by the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife and Animal Legal Defense Fund — contends the government’s power to waive the laws expired in 2008, when it met a congressional requirement for erecting fences on about one-third of the border.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra files suit in federal court against U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed plan for a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border.