Eighteen states and District of Columbia file lawsuit arguing president’s order is violation of US constitution

Summary

A swath of Democratic-led states and civil rights groups have filed the first lawsuits challenging executive orders Donald Trump signed after taking office, including one that seeks to roll back birthright citizenship in the US.

A coalition of 18 Democratic-led states along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Tuesday arguing the Republican president’s effort to end birthright citizenship is a flagrant violation of the US constitution.

That lawsuit followed a pair of similar cases filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant organizations and an expectant mother in the hours after Trump signed the executive order, marking the first major litigation challenging parts of his agenda since he took office.

Edit: Count is now 22 states. Thanks empireoflove2!

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Because Republicans spent years radicalizing the dumbest members of our society, which unfortunately now include over half of voting Americans, using fear-based propaganda, in order to put themselves in a position to dismantle our democracy for their own benefit.

    • nialv7@lemmy.world
      51·
      3 months ago

      What else do you expect? Trump struck down by lightning as soon as he signed it?

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
      122·
      3 months ago

      Republicans don’t want to respect 14th amendment, Democrats don’t want to respect 2nd amendment.

      • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I wish that were true, maybe all those school shootings would stop if we actually did something about them

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    This is just the beginning of the Trump Party (not Republican Party anymore) attempting to dismantle our Constitution.

    Expect it to continue non-stop for the next 4 years minimum. And expect it to succeed in some ways. We will not come out of this era with the same number of rights we went in with. Women already haven’t.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    Is this one of those things that will end up at the Supreme Court? If so, I don’t have much faith and would sound like exactly what they want to occur.