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,

Maryland joined 17 states, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco to sue President Trump on Tuesday over what they called his “flagrantly unlawful attempt” to end birthright citizenship through one of the flurry of executive orders he signed after taking office.