A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments Thursday over a longer-term pause of the directive, which aims to end citizenship for children born to parents not legally in the country.
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00:00We do not have a king. We have a president who must abide by the laws and if they want to amend
00:05the constitution there is a process by which to do that. But as of today we're back to the status
00:11quo that we've had in this country for 150 years that you are an American if you are born on U.S.
00:18soil. So I'm really thrilled with the court's reaffirmance of that today. Well this case will
00:22proceed and now the preliminary injunction that we have is the law of the land. Once again the
00:28United States government cannot take any action to enforce or implement the executive order that
00:33was issued by the president and we will see what next steps the United States tries to take. But
00:38for now the law remains and we will be subject to the court's further rulings. Well for now those
00:43cases will proceed in two different courts and we have great colleagues across this country and
00:48another coalition of democratic attorney generals bringing a case in the district of Massachusetts
00:53and those cases will continue to proceed and that is appropriate when we have big immense challenges
00:57and what we're facing right now in this country is the Trump administration moving 100 miles an
01:02hour in 100 different areas and on a daily daily basis breaking the law violating the United States
01:08constitution and that is I think a reinforcement from my perspective why it's so important to have
01:14multiple cases being brought across this country to make sure that we are responding with the
01:18same urgency that we're seeing to the lawlessness from Washington D.C.