States challenge Administration’s immigration and election requirements for grants

(CN) — Over two dozen states took on the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA Thursday, filing suit over new election and immigration requirements to receive grants from the federal government. DHS and FEMA violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the spending clause in the U.S. Constitution, the states argued, by imposing new election- and immigration-related requirements to receive billions in anti-terrorism and emergency response funds. The agencies are attempting to leverage the funds to “coerce” states into adopting the Trump administration’s preferred policies, the states said in their suit. Sydney Haulenbeek, Courthouse News Service. 

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