AABA - Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area

AABA - Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area AABA is the largest local Asian American bar association in the country and is one of the largest minority bar associations in California.

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) was founded in 1976 to provide Asian American attorneys with a vehicle for the unified expression of opinions and positions on matters of concern to all Asian American attorneys. AABA also encourages and promotes the professional growth of its members, serves the Asian American and minority community, and fosters the exchange of ide

as and information among its members and with the legal community at large, to encourage and to promote the professional growth of its members, and to foster the exchange of ideas and information among its members and with the legal community at large. AABA is the largest local Asian American bar association in the country and is one of the largest minority bar associations in California, with members who are lawyers, judges, law students and others, representing the entire spectrum of political, social and legal concerns. It is active in six Bay Area counties – including San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Marin and Santa Clara. AABA has a strong sense of community responsibility. We strive not only to meet the professional needs of our members, but to use our resources and expertise to serve the public interest through legal clinics and other programs. We frequently cooperate with Asian American community groups in California on issues that affect our members and our community. AABA also is certified by the State Bar Board of Governors as a provider of Minimum Continuing Legal education and sends delegates to the annual State Bar Conference of Delegates. In 2009, AABA received the California State Bar’s Diversity Award (bar association) in honor of its long history of advocating for diversity in the legal profession.

AABA Statement on New Executive Orders Targeting Birthright CitizenshipLate last week, more than a month after the Supre...
08/11/2026

AABA Statement on New Executive Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship

Late last week, more than a month after the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's executive order seeking to eliminate birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, the administration issued two new executive orders attempting to limit birthright citizenship. The orders attempt to deny citizenship to children born to parents employed by a foreign government or designated as an "alien enemy."

This morning, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of Massachusetts, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Law Caucus, and Democracy Defenders Fund filed a new lawsuit challenging these executive orders. We commend these organizations for their quick action and perseverance in seeking to enforce the promise of birthright citizenship -- the very promise that the Supreme Court vowed in Trump v. Barbara to keep.

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area remains committed to fighting to uphold our constitutional rights, including birthright citizenship: a right that has been repeatedly affirmed since the Court decided in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that a 21-year-old Chinese American born in San Francisco to Chinese parents was a citizen.

08/04/2026
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area Statement on Supreme Court Decision Blocking Trump Executive Orde...
06/30/2026

Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area Statement on Supreme Court Decision Blocking Trump Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship

In a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Barbara delivered today, the Supreme Court held that President Trump’s executive order seeking limits on birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. For Asian American and Pacific Islander attorneys in the Bay Area, birthright citizenship is part of many of our own family histories of migration and becoming American.

It is also part of our local history: United States v. Wong Kim Ark established the constitutionality of birthright citizenship in deciding that a 21-year-old Chinese American born in San Francisco to Chinese parents was a citizen. And just across the Bay, Angel Island serves as a stark reminder of the harsh legacy of immigration policies that detain and discriminate against potential new Americans.

Today’s ruling upholds one of our most important constitutional rights. As the majority opinion stated, “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights— to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”

We, too, will keep our promise to fight to uphold our constitutional rights and uplift our communities. AABA was proud to join with dozens of AAPI bar associations across the country as amici curiae defending birthright citizenship. We congratulate the Asian Law Caucus, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of Massachusetts, Democracy Defenders Fund, and the Legal Defense Fund on their critical victory today.

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