Lawsuits Challenge Trump’s Effort to End Birthright Citizenship

Lawsuits have been filed targeting Trump’s executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship.  “Denying citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil is illegal,” said Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and lead attorney in this case. — ACLU.  Suits have been brought in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Seattle.

There is much commentary on the history of birthright citizenship.

UPDATE (1/22, 3:40 p.m. PST):

New tonight: A federal judge in Seattle sets a hearing for Thurs. to consider whether to enter an immediate order temporarily blocking the Trump admin from enforcing the EO ending automatic citizenship, this is in a case brought by Dem AGs

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