House Democrats File Brief Opposing Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship

Lawmakers argue executive order violates Constitution, over a century of legal precedent.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats filed an amicus brief Friday in Trump v. CASA, Inc., urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to uphold a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

The brief—signed by 170 House Democrats—argues that the order is unconstitutional and violates more than a century of Supreme Court precedent, including the landmark 1898 decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.