Carrie Johnson

And in the next 20 years, nearly 5 million babies.

And as for people who are already here, that executive order, which was signed in January 2025, basically...

started the clock 30 days later.

So we're talking about prospective kids born in this country.

And advocates I've been hearing from say the impact there could also be huge.

I heard from Artie Coley from the Asian Law Caucus.

Here's what she had to say.

So those are all very basic functions, and it would upset a whole bunch of systems that have been in place for decades and decades and decades.

Yeah.

In the worst case scenario, those babies would be considered stateless.

They would have no clear citizenship.

And, you know, that's that's a very significant thing.

This court has been wanting to achieve a lot in a relatively short period of time.

Remember, there's a six to three conservative supermajority.

President Trump has already named three justices of the nine, and they've been quite welcomed.

and able to overturn some kind of fundamental precedents in this country already.

It wasn't that long ago that we had the Dobbs case, which threw out Roe v. Wade.

And we're waiting on the edges of our chairs right now for what this court intends to do with the Voting Rights Act.

So the idea that they would even take a question with respect to birthright citizenship says a lot about how conservative this court is politically and how open they are to rethinking what was previously considered to be settled law for generations or over a century.

Well, you know, one of the things that advocates I've been talking to have signaled is that if the Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration and upends the kind of common understanding of the 14th Amendment we've had really since the post-Civil War era—