Washington is teaming up with a coalition of states in suing the Trump administration for reallocating homeland security dollars “for political purposes.”

The move, the 12 attorneys general contend, was unlawful and/or unconstitutional.

Attorney General Nick Brown’s office announced the lawsuit Monday afternoon. Brown and company argue that the administration of President Donald Trump is tightening the federal-funding spigot to target states with immigration policies that it disagrees with.

Named as defendants: the Department of Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and FEMA leader David Richardson.

“There is no force in American politics that is more reckless and destructive than the current president of the United States,” Brown said in

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