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 coalition filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts that seeks to stop what they call an unlawful action by the president.
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.
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.
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.
Activists in Burlington and in more than 70 other cities nationwide protested President Trump's inauguration over policies on marginalized communities.
The courts will ultimately have their say on the new administration's "energy emergency" and planned environmental rollbacks.
President Donald Trump found a letter from former President Biden in a drawer of the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday evening. She completely changed me.
Former president George W. Bush took the internet by storm during the 2025 Inauguration of President Donald Trump, where the 43rd president seemed to have a playful moment during the proceedings.