Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.
Nevada's attorney general joins nearly two dozen of his counterparts in challenging an executive order he calls a "unilateral attack on the constitutional rights of Americans."
Attorneys general from 18 states, including Wisconsin, sued to block President Trump’s move to end an immigration policy known as birthright citizenship.
The State of Nevada will be joining 21 other states and municipalities in a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to protect birthright citizenship.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general said Thursday they plan to defend two gun regulations now being challenged in court, including one banning devices that enable semiautomatic guns to fire more quickly.
Attorney General Dan Rayfield has joined other states in Texas gun rights cases in support of Biden administration rules requiring background checks and banning conversion devices that turn handguns into rapid-fire weapons.
New Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Thursday that Oregon and more than a dozen other states are joining together to defend two federal rules aimed at reducing gun violence nationwide. Here's Rayfield's news release about the action,
New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said his state and others with Democratic attorneys general, plan to intervene in cases already in the court system.