Ashley Lopez

citizenship, arguably one of the biggest cases before the court this term.

Keri, before we get into the details of this, can you remind us what prompted this?

And Domenico, I want to talk about the politics of all this.

What is President Trump trying to accomplish here?

Yeah.

And Carrie, I mean, this is from the far right of like immigration policy.

I mean, some would argue pretty fringe legal theory that's at work here, right?

I want to talk about the folks who are opposing this.

What legal arguments are you expecting to hear from the people who are fighting President Trump's executive order?

So Trump himself recently posted on Truth Social about this case, and he said, quote, it is about the babies of slaves.

We are the only country in the world that dignifies this subject with even discussion, he wrote.

Look at the dates of this long ago legislation, the exact end of the Civil War, end quote.

We should note up top that that is not true.

There are other countries, right, that have similar laws like this.

Carrie, so we know what the president has said about this, but I do wonder what the Justice Department's arguments will be.

Yeah, it would be a much bigger political project to take on.

All right.

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More in a moment.

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