By Jake Goldstein-Street
Washington State Standard
Washington’s attorney general, along with three other states, sued the Trump administration Tuesday, Jan. 21 over the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
Attorney General Nick Brown’s lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle comes just 24 hours after President Donald Trump took office for a second time Monday.
The Democratic attorney general, who took office last week, announced the litigation Tuesday in a press conference in Seattle. Oregon, Arizona and Illinois joined the lawsuit.
Brown said he would be filing an emergency motion to block federal agencies “relying on the order to deny citizenship to babies born in
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