Well that didn’t take long, Save Jerseyans.
On Tuesday, only one day after President Trump began his second term, New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin sued the president over a brand new executive order eliminating birthright citizenship.
“President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally end birthright citizenship is a flagrant violation of our Constitution,” said Platkin. “For more than 150 years, our country has followed the same basic rule: babies who are born in this country are American citizens. New Jersey is a proud state of immigrants, and we benefit tremendously from the contributions of birthright citizens—in our state and across the country. State Attorneys General have been preparing for illegal actions like this one, and today’s immediate lawsuit sends a clear message to the Trump Administration that we will stand up for our residents and their basic constitutional rights.”
“The Constitution could not be more clear: citizenship of children born in the United States does not depend on the citizenship of their parents. That principle is fundamental to who we are as a nation and what it means to be an American,” added Governor Phil Murphy. “Yesterday’s announcement about birthright citizenship flouts the Constitution and will needlessly harm families who are lawfully present in the United States until it is inevitably overturned by the courts. We will not waver in our efforts to protect the rights of all who call New Jersey home.”
Platkin’s argument is that the President’s executive order violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution in addition to Section 1401 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Trump Administration obviously disagrees, noting how numerous scholars previously have that the Left’s modern interpretation of birthright citizenship lacks grounding in reality.
“…the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,'” explains the President’s executive order. “Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that ‘a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text.”
New Jersey and multiple other jurisdictions – including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia and San Francisco – are asking for an injunction.
Click here to read the complaint.
Yet again, New Jersey’s government is wasting resources defending illegal aliens instead of taking steps to protect and defend its own citizens. It’s outrageous and an affront to the Constitution which Platkin loves to invoke but clearly doesn’t understand.
