Massachusetts joins lawsuit over Trump's order ending birthright citizenship
Eighteen states, including Massachusetts, are challenging Trump's order with a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
States File Suit In Massachusetts Against Trump Admin Over Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
A coalition of 19 states and the City and County of San Francisco have filed a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump and multiple federal agencies, challenging an executive order that seeks to restrict birthright citizenship.
NY, 21 other states sue Trump over birthright citizenship, calling executive order unconstitutional
Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.
Colorado joins 21 other states in suing Trump administration over ‘birthright’ executive order
Twenty-two states including Colorado are suing to block what they say is an unconstitutional attempt by President Donald Trump to end birthright citizenship in the United States.
NY joins challenge of Trump's order to end birthright citizenship
State Attorney General Letitia James has signed on as a petitioner in a case filed by other Democratic attorneys general in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts
Mass. and 17 other states sue Trump for move to end birthright citizenship
Lawyers for Civil Rights also sued, alleging Trump's order is unconstitutional based on the language of the 14th Amendment. The civil suit was filed on behalf of an expectant mother and immigration advocacy groups La Colaborativa and the Brazilian Worker Center.
22 states challenge Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship
In one of his first executive orders of second term, US President Donald Trump ended US citizenship for children born in the United States to mothers who are in the country illegally or are staying temporarily,
Democratic States Sue To Halt Trump’s Bombshell Executive Order
The 18 blue states, along with the District of Columbia and city of San Francisco, contend that Trump’s order steamrolls the Constitution.
Democratic-led states, advocates sue over Trump's birthright citizenship order
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -Democratic-led states and civil rights groups have filed the first lawsuits challenging executive orders U.S. President Donald Trump signed after taking office, including one that seeks to roll back birthright citizenship in the U.
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