AMONG THE CASCADE of executive orders that came when President Donald Trump took office Monday, his new administration dropped a big one. Under the caption, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state would join a lawsuit in the wake of an executive order by President Trump seeking to end birthright citizenship.

California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco have sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional.