As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength since the Ronald Reagan era in the 1980s.
Why AG Charity Clark is among those who says: "babies born here in Vermont have a constitutional right to be embraced as Vermonters and Americans.”
The lawsuit argues that the 14th Amendment applies to all children born in the country and cannot be dismissed by the stroke of a president’s pen.
A coalition of states, including Vermont and New York, are suing President Donald Trump's administration over an executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark and New York Attorney General Letitia James are among the attorneys general from 19 states,
Those in favor of Trump said they believe he's going to reunite the country and make it safer, more affordable, and a better place to live, while others protested his inauguration.
President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to pardon defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
This executive order is plainly unconstitutional,” Vermont Attorney General Clark said in a statement Tuesday announcing the lawsuit.
Activists in Burlington and in more than 70 other cities nationwide protested President Trump's inauguration over policies on marginalized communities.
Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.
The courts will ultimately have their say on the new administration's "energy emergency" and planned environmental rollbacks.
But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .