Tennessee Attorney General Johnathan Skrmetti filed a legal brief in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.
The executive order, which Trump signed on his first day in office, was swiftly challenged in the courts and has been blocked from going into effect by a second federal judge in response to a lawsuit from CASA and other left-wing organizations.
Skrmetti outlined his opinion in favor of the executive order’s legality in a “friend-of-the-court” brief filed earlier this week, asserting that the Constitution does not guarantee birthright citizenship for those whose parents are present in the United States illegally.
“Contemporaneous sources instead support what common sense suggests: Conferring United States citizenship requires a more meaningful connection than mere presence by happenstance or…
