President Donald Trump ordered Monday that individuals born in the U.S. are not entitled to automatic citizenship. The order makes stipulations based on the parents' legal status and residency.
Attorneys general from 22 states, including Hawaii, sued President Donald Trump in two federal district courts today to block an executive order that refuses to recognize as citizens the U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country illegally, the opening salvo in what promises to be a long legal …
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, but a new lawsuit argues presidents "are not kings."
Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration practice known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless
"The President does not have the power to decide who becomes a citizen at birth,” the lawsuit states. “That right is conveyed by the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
CNN By Devan Cole, Kara Scannell, Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Two dozen Democratic-led states and cities are challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship in court, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies.
On the second day of President Donald Trump’s administration, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joined a coalition of 18 states, as well as the cities of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., in suing Trump to...
Twenty-two Democrat-led states and two cities challenged President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, that on Tuesday kicked off the first legal battles between his new Justice Department and Democratic attorneys general.
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts seeking to block President Donald Trump's attempt to revoke the right to automatic birthright citizenship.
Attorneys general from 18 states, including Wisconsin, sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.
California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco have sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional.
Attorneys general in 23 states have filed two legal challenges in federal courts seeking to halt President Donald Trump from limiting birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants and visitors.
A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration's move, describing it as unconstitutional.
Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of a campaign promise. But whether it will stand up in court isn't clear.
