NPR News: 04-01-2026 11AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kurova Coleman, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments over birthright citizenship. President Trump is challenging the constitutional right. He signed an executive order trying to deny it to children born in the U.S. to migrants who are illegally or temporarily in the country. Trump was immediately challenged citing the 14th Amendment. President Trump is seated now in the court room listening to the arguments. Justice John Roberts began questioning. He asked Solicitor General John Sauer about the administration's argument that people from other countries are flying to the U.S. to give birth. A practice described as birth tourism. Sauer says the framers of the 14th Constitutional Amendment could not have foreseen this. If their interpretation has these implications that could not possibly have been approved by the 19th century framers of this amendment, I think that shows that their interpretation has made a mess of the provision. Well, it certainly wasn't a problem in the 19th century.

1:03No, but of course, we're in a new world now, just to lead a point out to where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child as a U.S. citizen. Well, it's a new world, it's the same Constitution. A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court is expected by Lee June. President Trump is scheduled to address the nation tonight about the war in Iran. This morning he wrote online, Iran's new leadership has asked the U.S. for a ceasefire. He says he'll consider it if Iran stops blocking oil shipments through the strait of Hormuz. Iranian leaders released a statement saying Trump's statements are false and baseless. Iran's revolutionary guards says it won't reopen the strait based on Trump's, quote, ridiculous displays. And while in an interview published today by the British newspaper The Telegraph, Trump says he is considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO. He described the Western military alliance that the U.S. helped create, as a quote, paper tiger. Trump later reiterated the comments to Reuters' new service. President Trump has signed an executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail.

2:07Oregon and Arizona are already pledging to challenge this. According to the Constitution, rules for voting by mail are set by state lawmakers and Congress. But President Trump's new executive order is testing the limits of his power. And it's signing Trump and his aid set a calls for his administration to create a list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state. And for states to send, and the U.S. Postal Service to deliver, mail and balance only to the people on that list. It's not clear whether and how Trump's order would be carried out. Voting rights groups have been preparing to file lawsuits to challenge this order. But one of the Constitution gives state legislatures, not the president, the power to regulate the times, places, and manner of holding federal elections. And Congress can alter those election rules. A Trump-backed bill that would overhaul voting is currently stuck in the Senate. Hansi Luang and Pierre News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News. A federal appeals court has upheld the Justice Department's decision to drop a criminal case against aircraft maker Boeing. It stems from two fatal plane crashes that kill 346 people.

3:12The federal government previously accused Boeing of misleading regulators about the safety of a vital plane part, but later the government reached a deal with Boeing, letting the aircraft maker avoid prosecution on a criminal charge. Washington State has enacted its first income tax. It applies to high earners and is backed by Governor Bob Ferguson. For Member Station KUOW, Sarah Meises Tan explains. The new law levies a 9.9 percent tax on all incomes over a million dollars, and is expected to generate about $3 billion annually. But before the ink was even dry, opponents have promised lawsuits. Governor Ferguson says he's expecting challenges, but believes the tax will prevail. When Washingtonians hear the benefits that flow to working families, to businesses, large and small, to kids and schools, with those free meals, or childcare services for thousands of Washington families, it's going to make a huge, huge difference. Opponents say any income tax, even if it's just on the wealthy, is against the state's

4:13constitution. Washington is one of just nine states in the country without one. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Meises Tan in Olympia. The Jewish holiday of Passover begins tonight. It commemorates the Exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, Jewish families observe the holiday with the Sater Meal, and at Banquets, where the story of their liberation is shared. This is NPR.