Miles Parks

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Myles Parks.

I cover voting.

And today on the show, a major court case over the future of citizenship in this country.

For more than two hours, the Supreme Court discussed if all babies born in the United States, regardless of their parents' status, are automatically granted citizenship.

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Solicitor General D. John Sauer began by laying out the thrust of his argument.

Throughout the arguments, though, justices returned to that concept again and again with skepticism.

Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the matter in exchange with Sauer.

In her argument, Cecilia Wong, the national legal director for the ACLU, said the Trump administration's interpretation would upend the Constitution and the lives of millions of people.

One of the biggest moments came when Chief Justice John Roberts directly rebuked the government's argument.

I want to bring in now NPR Supreme Court correspondent Kerry Johnson, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and joining us from the Supreme Court is NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.

Hi to you all.

Hey.

So let's start with the main takeaways.

Nina, let's start with you.

Tell me a little bit more.

One of the most unprecedented aspects of these arguments is the fact that the president was actually there.

Can you tell me a little bit more about his reaction throughout all of this or how that impacted things?

Okay, well, getting into the arguments, Carrie, I want to go back to what we heard from the Chief Justice, this moment where he says, it's a new world, but it's the same Constitution.