Birthright citizenship — the idea that every person born in the U.S. is an American citizen — is spelled out in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

Brown on Tuesday announced a lawsuit targeting Trump’s executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship. Washington’s new AG, who was sworn in last week, decried the directive as “unconstitutional,” “cruel” and “simply un-American.”

Washington’s attorney general, along with three other states, sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Attorney General Nick Brown’s lawsuit in U.