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Matthew J. Platkin

Matthew J. Platkin

Attorney General of New Jersey

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Platkin and allied AGs argued the Constitution "confers birthright citizenship broadly, including to persons within the categories described" by Trump’s order, warning it would create "a shadow population of U.S.-born children with no clear legal home."([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14160))

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Trump’s birthright citizenship order heads to the Supreme Court

Rule Changes

Leading multi‑state lawsuit against EO 14160

On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." The order denies automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children when the mother is unlawfully present or on a temporary visa and the father is neither a citizen nor a lawful permanent resident. It challenges 125 years of legal consensus (grounded in the 14th Amendment and the Supreme Court's 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark) that nearly all children born on U.S. soil are automatically citizens.

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