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The lawsuit, filed by 18 Democratic attorneys general, accuses Trump of seeking to eliminate a "well-established and longstanding Constitutional principle" by executive fiat.
A lawsuit filed by over a dozen Democratic state attorneys general Tuesday is challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, a major constitutional challenge to one of ...
The lawsuit asks the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts to block Trump's order from taking effect — which it is meant to do in less than 30 days — and to "ensure that the rights of American ...
The Constitution does not contain any clause expressly providing that the states have the power to declare federal laws unconstitutional. Supporters of nullification have argued that the states' power of nullification is inherent in the nature of the federal system. They have argued that before the Constitution was ratified, the states essentially were separate nation
Another series of enforcement statutes in the 1950s and 1960s depended on individual lawsuits filed by the Department of Justice. But litigation is slow and expensive, and the States were creative in "contriving new rules" to continue violating the Fifteenth Amendment "in the face of adverse federal court decrees." Katzenbach, supra, at 335 ...
The ACLU lawsuit in New Hampshire seeks to block Trump from denying citizenship to those children. ... The constitutional provision was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, and upheld by the ...
Subject-matter jurisdiction, also called jurisdiction ratione materiae, [1] is a legal doctrine regarding the ability of a court to lawfully hear and adjudicate a case. . Subject-matter relates to the nature of a case; whether it is criminal, civil, whether it is a state issue or a federal issue, and other substantive features of th
The lawsuit included a challenge to a recently enacted measure ... It’s now up to the Illinois Supreme Court to decide if a recently enacted state law limiting where people can file ...