Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

Today we examine the legal battles shaking the foundations of American citizenship and voting rights

as Trump's legal team uses the courts as a weapon against democratic participation

and how advocates are fighting back.

We'll hear about the 3D playbook of deceive, disrupt,

and deny used by authoritarians and being deployed by Trump ahead of the midterms

and what ordinary people can do right now to protect their votes before November.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about

50 minutes today include the NPR Politics Podcast, strict scrutiny, Democracy Now, Legal

A-F, the Bradcast, and Stay Tuned with Preat. Then in the additional deeper dives half of the

show, there will be more in three sections. Section A,

birthright citizenship, section B, election interference, and section C, mail-in voting. But first,

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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.

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

Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court,

the Citizenship Clause was adopted just after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the newly freed slaves and their children,

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