Trump's record-breaking Day 1 executive actions prompt legal challenges
Another controversial executive order Trump signed was one aiming to cut off birthright citizenship. Critics immediately pounced on Trump, arguing people born in the United States are granted citizenship under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment even if their birth parents migrated here illegally.
Here are the executive actions and orders Trump signed on Day 1
We’re tracking the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office, just hours after being inaugurated as president.
22 states sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump has moved to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship, ordering the cancellation of the constitutional guarantee that U.S.
22 states challenge Trump's executive order cutting birthright citizenship
President Trump's bid to cut off birthright citizenship is "flagrantly unlawful," attorneys for 18 states said in a lawsuit challenging the president's executive order.
Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges
The orders include some actions that experts say may beyond the reach of the president’s pen and could be tied up in courts or legislatures for years
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.
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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.
States sue to stop Trump's order blocking birthright citizenship
Attorneys general from 18 states sued to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens r
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Trump admin. orders federal DEI program employees to be placed on paid leave
All diversity, equity and inclusion federal employees are to be placed on paid leave no later than Wednesday evening, the ...