Jan 21, 2025 · TRENTON — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced he is leading a challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, which violates the constitutional rights to which all children born in the United States are entitled.

Jan 21, 2025 · New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has announced a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship ...

Jan 21, 2025 · New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said Tuesday he’s leading a group of 18 states, the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco, in filing a lawsuit blocking Trump’s order that would end birthright citizenship. Four other states filed a separate suit in federal court later in the day, bringing that number to 22 ...

Jan 21, 2025 · President Donald Trump’s executive order refusing to recognize U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens would “wreak havoc and chaos” nationwide, New Jersey and other Democratic-led states say in a new lawsuit. At a press conference in Newark to discuss the new complaint — one of a flurry of legal actions taken to challenge Trump’s order — New Jersey Attorney ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration practice known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status. Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he’s talked about during the presidential ...

Jan 21, 2025 · New Jersey and 17 other states sued to stop executive order from taking effect, citing 14th Amendment. Later in the day, four other states filed their own lawsuit against Trump.

Jan 21, 2025 · Mr. Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship was “extraordinary and extreme,” said New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew J. Platkin, who led one of the legal efforts along with the ...

Jan 21, 2025 · “New Jersey is a proud state of immigrants, and we benefit tremendously from the contributions of birthright citizens — in our state and across the country,” Platkin said. “Today’s immediate lawsuit sends a clear message to the Trump administration that we will stand up for our residents and their basic constitutional rights.”

Jan 23, 2025 · A person films Washington Attorney General Nick Brown as he speaks during a press availability after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship in a case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Seattle.

Jan 23, 2025 · New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin joined 17 other Democratic attorneys general in a different but similar suit, suing Trump on Tuesday to stop him from ending what is called birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.