Summary
A swath of Democratic-led states and civil rights groups have filed the first lawsuits challenging executive orders Donald Trump signed after taking office, including one that seeks to roll back birthright citizenship in the US.
A coalition of 18 Democratic-led states along with the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Tuesday arguing the Republican president’s effort to end birthright citizenship is a flagrant violation of the US constitution.
That lawsuit followed a pair of similar cases filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, immigrant organizations and an expectant mother in the hours after Trump signed the executive order, marking the first major litigation challenging parts of his agenda since he took office.
Edit: Count is now 22 states. Thanks empireoflove2!
This is just the beginning of the Trump Party (not Republican Party anymore) attempting to dismantle our Constitution.
Expect it to continue non-stop for the next 4 years minimum. And expect it to succeed in some ways. We will not come out of this era with the same number of rights we went in with. Women already haven’t.
Article has updated since posting. It’s now 22 states.
I have the following count from what I could gather, if you’re not in one of these states/jurisdictions and you are in the United States, I would encourage you contact your local state attorney general and encourage them to take part.
- New jersey
- Massachusetts
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Hawaii
- Maine
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Wisconsin
- New Hampshire
- Washington
- Illinois
- Oregon
- Arizona
Extras:
- Washington, DC
- San Francisco, CA
Glad I am in Oregon then. I might have a chance of retaining some semblance of human rights
Is this one of those things that will end up at the Supreme Court? If so, I don’t have much faith and would sound like exactly what they want to occur.
What’s the alternative? Not resist, throw our hands up, and say “it won’t work”? These fascist bootlickers can destroy our democracy, but we don’t have to make it easy for them…
Americans won’t do anything until it personally affects their lifestyles. So, probably not at all, and if so, probably far too late.
Yeah good luck with suing someone who uses law books for toilet paper…I’m sure trump is very worried now.
I’m curious to see a map of cannabis legalization map next to a map of these States.
