President Donald Trump was so busy on his first day in office that it’s been a challenge to cover everything that he did.
The best way to know which are the best ones to discuss is to look at the way Democrats are reacting to them. His pardon of J6 prisoners was a big one; they’re really up in arms about that. Another one was his executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants in the United States.
Now, Democrat attorneys general from 22 states are suing over the executive order.
Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he’s talked about during the presidential campaign. But whether it succeeds is far from certain amid what is likely to be a lengthy legal battle over the president’s immigration policies and a constitutional right to citizenship.
The Democratic attorneys general and immigrant rights advocates say the question of birthright citizenship is settled law and that while presidents have broad authority, they are not kings.
“The president cannot, with a stroke of a pen, write the 14th Amendment out of existence, period,” New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin said.
The White House said it’s ready to face the states in court and called the lawsuits “nothing more than an extension of the Left’s resistance.”
These challenges are doomed to fail.
The Associated Press claims that birthright citizenship is “the right to citizenship granted to anyone born in the U.S., regardless of their parents’ immigration status” and insists that anyone “in the United States on a tourist or other visa or in the country illegally can become the parents of a citizen if their child is born here,” and that this right is “enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.” The problem is that it doesn’t.