Wash. AG Ferguson: We'll sue if Trump cold cocks 14th Amendment on citizenship
The state of Washington will go to court against the Trump Administration if the president tries to end birthright citizenship, guaranteed under the 14th Amendment, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Tuesday.
"No matter how much he may want to appeal to the Alt-Right, President Trump can't alter the Constitution through executive order," Ferguson said in a statement.
"If he tries, we will immediately take him to court to defeat him again."
Under Ferguson, the state of Washington has sued or joined in 32 lawsuits against the Trump Administration. It scored a major federal court victory last year blocking the Trump Muslim Travel Ban No. 1. The state has won repeated victories against illegal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency efforts to delay or delete regulations.
It is unclear whether and how Trump would move against birth citizenship. Announced in pre-election interviews, the President's threatened action may simply be a sop to get far-right voters to cast ballots next Tuesday.
"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits," Trump told an interviewer.
The claim is false: Both Canada to the north, and Mexico to the south, offer birthright citizenship, as do 28 other countries.
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