Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge

0:00On April 1st, the Supreme Court is diving into one of the biggest cases this term, tackling President Trump's executive order on birthright. Citizenship, it says, kids born in the U.S. to parents here illegally, or on temporary visas, don't get automatic citizenship. Trump signed it on day one of his second term, and he's showing up in person for Wednesday's arguments, making him the first sitting president to do. That lower courts, including one in New Hampshire, have already shot it down as unconstitutional, so it's never taken effect anywhere. This builds on the 14th Amendment from 1868, which grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, and subject to its laws with few exceptions like diplomats kids. Folks are fired up because it could hit over a quarter million babies born here each year, from families of undocumented parents to legal visitors. Like students chasing green cards. Advocacy groups, including the ACLU, call it a radical rewrite of what it means to be American, especially since no court has bought

1:04the. Administrations take so far. The government's pushing back, arguing those kids aren't fully under U.S. jurisdiction, but they're leaning on a narrow read of old precedents like the 1898 Wong Kim art case that back citizenship for a U.S. born child of Chinese immigrants. Trump lost the similar fight before on his emergency tariffs, and he didn't hold back, blasting the justices as unpatriotic. We'll get a final word by early summer, testing how far executive power stretches on immigration. This one's reshaping the citizen's shift debate for generations ahead. That's the story for today, Global News Today, driven by AI.