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“This is really an extraordinary claim of presidential power.” Nearly two dozen states have already sued Trump over his executive order intended to limit birthright citizenship, part of his ...

Mr. Trump invoked presidential powers to begin his long ... The 14th Amendment says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is swiftly breaching the traditional boundaries of presidential power as he returns to the White House, bringing to bear a lifetime of bending the limits ...

In a flurry of unilateral executive actions, Mr. Trump revived disputed claims of broad presidential authority from his first term — and made some new ones. Court battles seem likely. By Charlie ...

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Nor is he empowered by any other source of law to limit who receives United States citizenship at birth," the lawsuit said. Four additional states filed a similar suit later in the day ...

Within hours of his Inauguration, President Donald Trump set out to fulfill a number of his campaign promises, issuing a spate of presidential ... The Flag Of The United States At Full-Staff ...

Trump posted what he called a "Official Notice of Dismissal" on social media early Tuesday morning, stating that his office would be "identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential ...