Cecillia (Cecilia) Wang
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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They wanted to give every person born on American soil equal rights and opportunities without regard to your parent's status, whether your parent is a convicted criminal or the king.
They want to treat everyone equally.
And that, of course, was imperfect.
It was an imperfect promise.
It was imperfect education.
espoused principle at the founding.
It took the efforts of free black Americans to get birthright citizenship, a universal principle, not just for black Americans, but for everyone.
And it took a civil war to get the reconstruction amendments as a whole.
That is what President Trump was fundamentally attacking with this executive order, along with so many of his other executive actions.
And it's something that the court has now definitively rejected.
So I think you're absolutely right.
We've had some very
major losses, disturbing losses that are deeply harmful to many Americans.
In fact, this morning, alongside birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court handed us a defeat in our cases that were trying to champion the rights of transgender girls and women to play sports in public schools.
And, you know,
There have been so many cases this term, unfortunately, where the Supreme Court turns another provision within the 14th Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, on its head.
As we saw in our Louisiana congressional redistricting case, Louisiana versus Calais, as we saw in the decision that upheld the Trump administration's termination of temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians,
contrary to what Congress intended.
And as we see in our cases on behalf of trans girls and women this morning, you see a court that's really got the equal protection fundamentally backwards and in ways that have the additive effect, the cumulative effect of undermining the court's fundamental role as
check on the tyranny of the majority.
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