22 states have now sued to stop President Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship for illegals, claiming his order violates the US constitution.

Here’s more from The Hill:

Twenty-two Democrat-led states and two cities challenged President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, which on Tuesday kicked off the first legal battles between his new Justice Department and Democratic attorneys general.

The two separate lawsuits, filed in Massachusetts and Washington state, ask federal judges to rule the order contradicts the Constitution, which under the 14th Amendment bestows citizenship on anyone born in the United States.

“President Trump now seeks to abrogate this well-established and longstanding Constitutional principle by executive fiat,” one group of states wrote in their complaint.

“The principle of birthright citizenship has been enshrined in the Constitution for more than 150 years. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment unambiguously and expressly confers citizenship on ‘[a]ll persons born’ in and ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States.”

Trump’s order, signed as part of a flurry of executive actions during his first day in office, seeks to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are not lawfully present. But it also applies to some parents in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas, a broader category that blocks citizenship to children born to those with authorization to work in the U.S.

The states’ lawsuits follow a similar challenge filed by the American Civil Liberties Union late Monday.

In a call Monday to preview executive orders, a Trump administration official seemed to acknowledge potential problems with the order, saying it would be carried out on a “prospective basis.”

“On a prospective basis, the federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States,” the official said.

This lawsuit is ridiculous and I’ll tell you why. The 14th amendment states that becoming a citizen by birth in this country is “subject to the jurisdiction” of this country. If you are an illegal here in America, then you are not a citizen of this country and therefore you or your children are not subject to the jurisdiction of this country and have no right to citizenship by birth.

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Honestly, I think President Trump welcomes this lawsuit to finally settle this matter once and for all. Given the preponderance the evidence from the founders on this question of jurisdiction, the ban will likely become permanent with the current Supreme Court.