The left isn’t going away quietly. This was inevitable, and you can bet folding money that the incoming Trump administration has anticipated it — but here we are. Eighteen states and two (so far) smaller jurisdictions are suing to block the Trump administration’s new ban on birthright citizenship.
Eighteen states, plus the District of Columbia and San Francisco sued in federal court to block Trump’s order.
New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said Tuesday that presidents might have broad authority but they are not kings.
“The president cannot, with a stroke of a pen, write the 14th Amendment out of existence, period,” he said.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a U.S. citizen by birthright and the nation’s first Chinese American elected attorney general, said the lawsuit was personal for him.
“The 14th Amendment says what it…
