
Democratic states sue over Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship
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A lawsuit filed by over a dozen Democratic state attorneys general Tuesday is challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies.
A lawsuit filed by over a dozen Democratic state attorneys general Tuesday is challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies. The lawsuit alleges that a Trump executive order signed Monday violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which gives a constitutional right of citizenship to all children born in the United States. “Despite a President’s broad powers to set immigration policy, however, the Citizenship Stripping Order falls far outside the legal bounds of the President’s authority,” the lawsuit says. This story is breaking and will be updated.