{"id":2393389,"date":"2025-01-21T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-ag-sues-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-calls-him-un-american-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:55:52","slug":"california-ag-sues-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-calls-him-un-american-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-ag-sues-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-calls-him-un-american-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"California AG sues Trump over birthright citizenship, calls him \u2018un-American\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-ag-sues-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-calls-him-un-american-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2393389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>california Attorney General Rob Bonta \u2064has filed a lawsuit against President \u2062Donald Trump, labeling his executive order aimed at blocking \u2062birthright citizenship as &#8220;blatantly unconstitutional&#8221; and &#8220;un-American.&#8221; Bonta, a Democrat, emphasizes the right to birthright citizenship as a constitutional guarantee, expressing disappointment that Trump chose to challenge this right early\u200c in his presidency.The lawsuit represents a response\u2064 to Trump&#8217;s executive order, which attempts to redefine citizenship \u2064for children born in the U.S. to\u2064 parents who are in the country unlawfully\u200d or on temporary visas.<\/p>\n<p>bonta stated that \u2063California is prepared to \u200dconfront the Trump governance&#8217;s actions, which may involve legal challenges \u200cfrom multiple states and advocacy\u200c groups. He reiterated that a president cannot unilaterally amend the Constitution. This move \u200dto challenge birthright citizenship is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-columbus-was-a-great-man-and-deserves-to-be-celebrated\/\" title=\"Columbus: A Great Man Worthy of Celebration\">larger historical context<\/a>,dating back over \u206440 years,and poses a significant test for the 14th Amendment. The lawsuit highlights ongoing tensions regarding immigration policy and civil rights in the \u200bUnited States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">California AG sues Trump over birthright citizenship, calls him &lsquo;un-American&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1941348\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"California\">California<\/a> Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rob Bonta \">Rob Bonta <\/a>on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"President Trump\">President Donald Trump<\/a>, calling his executive order to block birthright citizenship &ldquo;blatantly unconstitutional&rsquo; and &ldquo;un-American.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Bonta, a Democrat, said he would defend birthright citizenship, teeing up the first of several&nbsp;expected pushbacks on the new administration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta takes questions from the media as he announces charges made against suspects involved in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theft-is-higher-than-what-it-has-historically-been-walmart-ceo\/\" title=\"Theft Is \u201cHigher Than What It Has Historically Been\u201d: Walmart CEO\">organized retail crime ring<\/a> during a news conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Birthright citizenship is a right expressly guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution,&rdquo; Bonta said. &ldquo;It is disappointing, but unfortunately unsurprising, that the President chose to disregard the Constitution and attempt to invalidate this right as one of his first acts in office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So far, 18 states, plus the District of Columbia and San Francisco, have sued the administration&nbsp;in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts, along with other immigrant rights advocates, filed a suit in New Hampshire federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants stretch back more than 40 years, but Trump&rsquo;s return to the White House could prove to be one of the greatest challenges for the 14th Amendment in its 157-year history.&nbsp;Trump, who campaigned on the idea of eliminating birthright citizenship, signed an executive order Monday as one of his first acts as president, ending the right to citizenship for some children born in America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump holds up the letter that former President Joe Biden left for him in the desk as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-points-out-hypocrisy-in-biden-signing-record-number-of-executive-orders\/\" title=\"GOP points out hypocrisy in Biden signing record number of executive orders\">signs executive orders<\/a> in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Specifically, Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a>&nbsp;states people born in the U.S. are not citizens if their &ldquo;mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person&rsquo;s birth,&rdquo; or if the mother was in the U.S. on a &ldquo;lawful but temporary&rdquo; basis like a tourist visa or a student visa and if the father isn&rsquo;t a citizen or a &ldquo;lawful permanent resident.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The first line of the 14th Amendment reads: &ldquo;All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bonta said his office had been &ldquo;readying and preparing for months&rdquo; for Trump and that &ldquo;all of our actions will be fully dependent on his.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A president has authority, but it&rsquo;s limited,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;A president certainly cannot amend the U.S. Constitution unilaterally.&rdquo;&nbsp;California has been at the forefront of the 14th Amendment fight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1898, a&nbsp;birthright citizenship case unfolded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"U.S. Supreme Court\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>. The high court held that Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the country. Wong had been denied reentry into the country on the grounds that he wasn&rsquo;t a citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act. Trump&rsquo;s executive order would likely provoke a test case to challenge the ruling, giving the Trump administration a chance to overturn it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Standing in his way are people like Bonta.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The President&rsquo;s executive order attempting to rescind birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional and quite frankly, un-American,&rdquo; Bonta said.&nbsp;&ldquo;As home of Wong Kim Ark, a San Francisco native who fought &mdash; successfully &mdash; to have his U.S. citizenship recognized, California condemns the President&rsquo;s attempts to erase history and ignore 125 years of Supreme Court precedent. We are asking a court to immediately&nbsp;block this order from taking effect and ensure that the rights of American-born children impacted by this order remain in effect while litigation proceeds. The President has overstepped his authority by a mile with this order, and we will hold him accountable.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">executive orders targeting immigration include barring asylum<\/a> for people arriving at the southern border, suspending the Refugee Admissions Program, declaring migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border a &ldquo;national emergency,&rdquo; thereby allowing the administration to unlock federal funding for a border wall without congressional approval, as well as greenlight stricter enforcement efforts. He also signed off on a policy that would require those seeking asylum to stay in Mexico while an immigration judge hears their case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>California and Trump have had a bumpy relationship and the birthright citizenship lawsuit is likely to be the first of many federal court face-offs between the two adversaries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The state sued Trump&rsquo;s first administration 123 times, which&nbsp;came out to about $10 million a year in taxpayer money. Trump lost two-thirds of those cases but experts warn that California could have a tougher go this time around because the administration knows what to expect and will likely be better prepared.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they&rsquo;ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,&rdquo; Eva Bitr&aacute;n, director of immigrants&rsquo; rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER \">CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides his immigration policies, Trump is also seeking to revoke the federal waiver allowing California to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in 2035, a move likely to end up before a judge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also on the list of disputes are offshore energy projects, funding for green infrastructure, as well as the designation of two new national monuments in California by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"President Joe Biden\">President Joe Biden<\/a> that prohibits oil and natural gas drilling as well as mining and other exploration on them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1941348\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1941348\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California AG sues Trump, labels him &#8216;un-American&#8217; over citizenship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2393390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24079690405300-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20195,4045,3634],"class_list":["post-2393389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ag","tag-california","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24079690405300-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393393,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393389\/revisions\/2393393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}