Ford joins AGs from 17 states in suing Trump over birthright citizenship
The lawsuit challenges President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, which they say violates the 14th Amendment.
24 Democratic states and cities sue over Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship
Two dozen Democratic-led states and cities are challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship in court, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies.
States, civil rights groups sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
Nearly two dozen states sue over Trump's order to end birthright citizenship
A Trump executive order that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents in the nation illegally faces a lawsuit.
Is birthright citizenship in the Constitution? Can Trump end it? 18 states sue
With one signature, President Donald Trump ended birthright citizenship where children born here were U.S. citizens even if their parents weren't.
The battle to keep birthright citizenship begins
Liberal groups hope the conservative Supreme Court will reverse Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order True to his word, President Donald Trump, with the stroke of his pen, upended more than a century of legal precedent with this declaration: “The privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States.
California among the states suing Trump's executive order targeting birthright citizenship
The executive order restricts automatic citizenship for babies born to parents who aren't citizens or lawful, permanent residents.
What Is Birthright Citizenship, and Can Trump Take it Away?
President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is prompting lawsuits alleging he lacks the legal ground to end the right enshrined in the Constitution.
Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments. How would that work?
No president has ever exercised this constitutional power, but "this remains a significant possibility in the eyes of the ...
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Age and generation in the 119th Congress: Somewhat younger, with fewer Boomers and more Gen Xers
The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years, while the Senate's median age is 64.7 ...
Congress named this group after the Gulf of Mexico in 1976. Will its name change under Trump?
For nearly half a century, there’s been little thought about the name Congress gave to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management ...
Republicans in Congress ran on the border and immigration. How will they use their power?
A Trump-era shift has left Republicans divided over several of the country’s biggest immigration programs. What could it mean ...
Russia's Weapons May Have Surpassed Nuclear Arms Treaty, US Congress Warned
Moscow suspended its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction agreement with the U.S. in February 2023.
House passes immigrant detention bill that would be Trump’s first law to sign
A crucial faction of politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to lift the strict proposal to passage on a 263 ...
Senate Democrats Block G.O.P. Effort to Criminalize Some Abortion Providers
The bill would require that infants born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protection as any newborn baby, ...
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How Much Power Does President Trump Have?
In his executive orders, Trump repeatedly asserted that he can make and interpret law, alongside Congress and the courts.