Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), accusing the agencies of unlawfully reallocating federal security funding for political purposes. The lawsuit comes after DHS and FEMA slashed millions in homeland security grants just four days before the end of the federal fiscal year. Other states faced even steeper losses: Illinois’ funding was cut by 69% (over $30 million) and New York’s by 79% (over $100 million). The lawsuit argues that DHS and FEMA violated the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act by conditioning federal funding on states’ willingness to enforce immigration laws. Washington, along with Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, and Vermont, signed on.