AG Jennings released a statement in response to the Supreme Court siding with her and her fellow Attorneys General over the Trump Administration on the issue of birthright citizenship.

“While today represents a decisive victory for the Constitution and the rule of law, it is troubling that the Court agonized for so long over what amounted to a straightforward reading of the 14th Amendment. This was not a complicated case: no serious lawyer believes that the President can nullify a constitutional provision with the stroke of a pen; the fact that 4 justices disagreed is a shameful spectacle of a once-proud institution’s capture by extremist interest groups like the Heritage Foundation and its genuflection to executive whim. It is not lost on me that, on the same day we breathe relief on basic constitutional affirmations, those justices also issued rulings that stripped transgender individuals of their fundamental rights and weakened our already anemic campaign finance laws. The fight is far from over…” -AG Jennings