Legal advocacy group Public Citizen filed the first legal challenge to US President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of three Texas landowners and a non-profit environmental group.
The complaint alleges that the necessary seizures of property from the Texas landowners would constitute an “imminent invasion of their privacy and the quiet enjoyment of their land, both during construction and after.” The complaint further alleges that the construction of a border wall would cause injury by destroying “critical habitat” for local wildlife, thus impairing the environmental group’s members the ability to observe wildlife.
