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    California's challenge to Trump's border wall more likely to win on narrow grounds

    by Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Feb 20, 2019 4 minutes

    SAN FRANCISCO - When a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's plan to build a border wall goes before a federal judge in San Francisco, California and 15 other states will argue that the administration's decision to bypass Congress violates the U.S. Constitution.

    But legal analysts generally agreed Tuesday that the lawsuit is most likely to prevail on more narrow grounds - if it succeeds at all.

    "This is so clearly unconstitutional and illegal that the Supreme Court will say it is not permissible," predicted UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

    University of Texas law professor Robert Chesney, on the other hand, said California faces an

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