
Washington State Sues To End Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
A fresh new year with hopeful citizens for a peaceful nation will see a lawsuit from many of the states to block the Trump Administration's Executive order to end Birthright Citizenship.
What this means is clearly stated in the documents of the lawsuit:
The President’s Executive Order, issued on January 20, 2025, and styled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” (Citizenship Stripping Order),1 is contrary to the plain terms of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and Section 1401 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The President has no authority to amend the Constitution or supersede the Citizenship Clause’s grant of citizenship to individuals born in the United States. Nor is he empowered by any other constitutional provision or law to determine who shall or shall not be granted United States citizenship at birth. The Fourteenth Amendment and federal law automatically confer citizenship upon individuals born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction.
Birthright Citizenship is a Right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and affirmed by the Supreme Court more than 125 years ago.
Other states also suing to protect the constitution are as follows:
STATE OF NEW JERSEY; COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS; STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF COLORADO; STATE OF CONNECTICUT; STATE OF DELAWARE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; STATE OF HAWAI‘I; STATE OF MAINE; STATE OF MARYLAND; ATTORNEY GENERAL DANA NESSEL FOR THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN; STATE OF MINNESOTA; STATE OF NEVADA; STATE OF NEW MEXICO; STATE OF NEW YORK; STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA; STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; STATE OF VERMONT; STATE OF WISCONSIN; and CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Ratified in 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed to give nearly emancipated and formerly enslaved Black Americans U.S. citizenship.
- "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside," it reads.
President Trump signed the order on Monday, just hours after taking office

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