IL Attorney General Kwame Raoul defended birthright citizenship in the ongoing multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration’s executive order purporting to redefine birthright citizenship to exclude certain children born to non-citizen parents. Attorneys representing Illinois, Arizona, Oregon and Washington argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in the states’ lawsuit challenging the executive order. “As a birthright citizen myself, born to an immigrant mother not yet naturalized at the time, the fight to preserve birthright citizenship is a personal one. As Attorney General, I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and to protect the rights of all Illinois residents. I am proud to stand with my colleagues to defend the 14th Amendment, which was enshrined in our Constitution more than 150 years ago.” – AG Raoul