Domenico Montanaro

And liftoff.

The crew of Artemis II now bound for the moon.

Our goal here was to make something as simple as possible.

That means we had to rely on more complicated science.

You had a majority of the Supreme Court's justices peppering the Solicitor General, D. John Sauer, with really skeptical questions about the Trump administration's position about birthright citizenship.

I mean, I'm going to be watching some of these justices for what they think specifically pertains

you know, what their interpretation winds up being specifically on things like bloodline versus born in the country soil.

Yeah, I thought it was interesting that you had a majority of the Supreme Court's justices peppering the Solicitor General, D. John Sauer, with really skeptical questions about the Trump administration's position about birthright citizenship.

I mean, I'm going to be watching some of these justices for what they think specifically about

what their interpretation, why is it being specifically on things like bloodline versus born in the country soil?

Justice Amy Coney Barrett specifically was saying, well, why didn't the framers make it more so that it was about parental descent as opposed to being born on the soil of the United States?

Justice Kavanaugh, for example, also asked about

Right.

So that difference, the ACLU's attorney, Cecilia Wong, noted was because of the exceptions to the birthright citizenship, which is traditionally thought to be things like ambassadors in the country and not having those babies born given citizenship, which they're not allowed to.

And Kavanaugh seemed to acknowledge in the second round of questioning to Wong that

When he was pressing her on this, because she said that the intent was the same for the 1866 laws, the 1868 law, that, well, if the language was different, then history might be different.

You know, as a political reporter, I will say that aside from the president being there for whatever his intent was, whether it was to learn what the arguments are or to

apply pressure to some of the justices who he appointed to this court to show himself.

I thought it was notable that when we look at going into this, the polling is really unclear on where people stand on whether or not they want the practice to continue that all persons, all babies get citizenship regardless of a parent's legal status.

And I thought that in these arguments –