How far will the U.S. Supreme Court allow Trump to go?
6/24/202633 min
America’s top court is set to deliver decisions on more than a dozen major cases in the coming days. And with rulings on birthright citizenship, transgender athletes and the Federal Reserve on the docket, there’s a lot at stake as the U.S. president’s agenda is tested by the justice system. This week, Washington correspondents Katie Simpson, Willy Lowry and Paul Hunter ask: How far will the Supreme Court allow Donald Trump to go?
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Damon Fairless0:39
[pensive music] This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States.
Donald Trump· Soundbite0:45
Mm-hmm. That's a good one. Birthright. That's a big one.
Damon Fairless0:50
What, what about that one in the Court? That one with likely Could be.
Donald Trump· Soundbite0:54
They think we have good ground, but you could be right. I mean, you'll find out. It's ridiculous. We're the only country in the world that does this with birthright, as you know.
Katie Simpson· Host1:06
That was Donald Trump, US president, on the very first day of his second term, signing an executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
Paul Hunter· Host1:15
Oh, man, I remember that day well. Um, what a stack of EOs there were on the desk that day, hey? Uh, i-b-I, I think we should say it right off the bat, it also began, uh, his second term with a falsehood. The US is not the only country with birthright citizenship, and, and maybe we can talk