
President Donald Trump's bid to cut off birthright citizenship is a "flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage," attorneys for 15 states and the city of San Francisco said Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the president's executive order signed just hours after he was sworn in Monday. The lawsuit accused Trump of seeking eliminate a "well-established and longstanding Constitutional principle" by executive fiat. "The President has no authority to rewrite or nullify a constitutional amendment or duly enacted statute. Nor...