New Jersey, Washington et al., Amici Curiae
New Jersey and Washington are joined in this brief by 23 other state and local governments. The following is excerpted from the Amici Curiae Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26, 2026. The [executive] order violates the citizenship clause and the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The citizenship clause grants citizenship to children born in the United States and subject to its laws — that is, virtually all U.S.-born babies, with only narrow well-defined exceptions known to the common law prior to the Fourteenth Amendment’s enactment. This rule reflects the 19th century meaning of…
