Court halts Trump's emergency declaration wall-building plans

A federal judge ruled Friday night that President Trump overstepped his powers when he used an emergency declaration to go around Congress and try to build his border wall, and ordered a halt to at least some of the construction.
Judge Haywood Gilliam, an Obama appointee to the Northern District of California, said the Constitution gives Congress the power to control spending, and Mr. Trump’s efforts to do an end-run around Capitol Hill, after lawmakers explicitly denied him more money for the wall, was too much.