OLYMPIA – Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown has filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order issued Monday to end birthright citizenship. The action, announced on day two of Trump’s new term, puts Washington state again at the forefront for challenging Trump’s initiatives.

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown is suing the Trump administration over the president's push to end birthright citizenship.

U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour’s ruling in the case brought by Washington and three other states is the first in what is sure to be a long legal fight over the order’s constitutionality.