Eighteen states and the ACLU filed lawsuits seeking to prevent President Trump from denying citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizens.
The Trump administration is pushing back against what it says is the "Left's resistance" after a legal challenge filed late Monday by the ACLU.
The anti-American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued President Donald Trump over his deportation plans. The suit was filed Wednesday, a day after the Trump Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new rule authorizing expedited removals for illegal aliens who are unable to prove that they’ve been in the country for at least two full years.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday night filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's controversial executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship.
After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.
Plaintiffs in the ACLU’s lawsuit argue the president’s executive order banning birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with several other pro-immigrant groups, is suing the Trump administration after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seeks to end the constitutionally recognized right of birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states in its first sentence that:
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.
Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship has sparked legal challenges across the country, and the ACLU Idaho prepares to oppose any local efforts to copy the policy.
The bill would require the Ten Commandments be posted in each classroom in South Dakota's public schools. But it could face legal challenges.
Lee Gelernt with the ACLU said the action goes "way beyond anything that even President Trump has tried in the past."