Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has signed on to a challenge of birthright citizenship. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a filing Friday in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting President Donald Trump’s order to end automatic birthright citizenship.

The brief brought by Skrmetti and 24 other states’ attorneys general urges the court to clarify that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause doesn’t grant automatic citizenship to people born on American soil regardless of their parents’ residency and immigration status.

The American Civil Liberties Union, multiple state attorneys general and immigration rights groups challenged the executive order. But Skrmetti sided with the president even though his order was bloc

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