State’s top legal officer endorses Trump’s view of ‘birthright citizenship’

A state’s top legal officer is endorsing President Donald Trump’s move to obtain a definitive court ruling on “birthright citizenship” in the United States which has been used for generations to give citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, regardless of the status of the parents.

Trump has issued an executive order that that practice ignores the Constitution’s requirement that they be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.

The fight is one of those in which local...