Twenty-one Democratic state attorneys general sued President Trump Friday over his executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies.

The suit focuses on three of those agencies — the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Minority Business Development Agency and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service — claiming the closures violate the separation of powers.

“President Trump is leading a campaign to dismantle vast swaths of the federal government. He has directed agencies to freeze the expenditure of funds appropriated by Congress, orchestrated the mass firings of federal probationary employees without following the requisite statutory procedures, and ordered agency after agency established by Congress ... to be shut down,” the complaint reads.

“But whatever the President’s policy preferences, he........

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