Brown on Tuesday announced a lawsuit targeting Trump’s executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship. Washington’s new AG, who was sworn in last week, decried the directive as “unconstitutional,” “cruel” and “simply un-American.”

Washington state is suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order to end birthright citizenship, with Arizona, Oregon, and Illinois joining the lawsuit. Why it matters: The legal challenge,

President Donald Trump moved to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship when he ordered the cancellation of the constitutional guarantee that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.