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struggle4progress

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Tue Jan 21, 2025, 05:10 PM Jan 21

AGs sue over citizenship [View all]

... 18 Democratic state attorneys general joined the legal fight to block the move, describing it as unconstitutional.

"What the president did yesterday is unlawful, unconstitutional and it will not stand," New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in an interview with NPR.

"We are a state of immigrants. Millions of people in our state have obtained their citizenship through birthright citizenship," Platkin said. "It's the story of our state and the story of America, and it's enshrined in our [U.S.] Constitution for a reason ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/g-s1-44023/trump-birthright-citizenship-immigration-order-14th-amendment

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