Former general counsels urge judge to back House border wall lawsuit

A group of attorneys, who previously served a bipartisan set of House speakers, filed a brief backing a House lawsuit that attempts to stop President Trump’s national emergency to build a border wall, Politico first reported Monday.

Details: The former House general counsels asked U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden to rule it's the House's right to pursue the suit following a "drawn-out standoff with the executive branch that led to the longest government shutdown in history," and that the dispute should be a matter for the courts.