Nina Totenberg

and the people on it have had a lot of time to think about it.

Last year they could have decided it, but the government very cleverly decided it didn't want to ask the court to decide this case yet.

And that meant that it's been churning around for another year.

And presumably they've thought about it, but there's only really two months left to the term.

Maybe three you could count.

April, May, June, three months.

And that's not that.

So this I think this will come really in late June.

I'm Nina Totenberg, and I cover the courts.

And I'm Domenico Mazzanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Before the proceedings started, the guards told us to sit down and I very clearly said, you know, this is our job is to look and see what's going on in this courtroom, at least before.

The proceedings began and they said, well, I'm sorry, this isn't our decision.

This is a new rule that the White House imposed on us.

So I didn't see anything.

Even in periods of great hostility to immigrants, the notion of birthright citizenship has remained so entrenched that during World War II, when Japanese enemy aliens were imprisoned in U.S.

detention camps, their newborn children were automatically granted American citizenship.

President Trump, however, has long maintained that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not confer automatic citizenship.

And so on day one of his second presidential term, he issued an executive order that bars citizenship for babies born to parents who enter the country illegally or

or who are here legally while they live and work on temporary visas.

To date, every judge to have ruled in the case has barred Trump's order from going into effect.