California’s Attorney General Joins Others in Challenging Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

Two cities and 16 states are filing suit against the order that scraps rules granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office on Jan. 20. Jim Watson/Pool/AFP

California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined more than a dozen other state attorneys general in challenging the constitutionality of an executive order redefining birthright citizenship, issued by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term.

The lawsuit was filed on Jan. 21 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.