The fact that on his very first day in office, Trump attacked birthright citizenship makes it clear what he is trying to do.

It's part of a wider strategy to deter immigration, really deter immigration of non-white people.

Let's be very honest and reshape U.S. demographic landscape.

So that's what we're talking about. And it did come up in a lot of ways in today's oral argument.

I'm Kimberly Atkins Store and this is Justice by Design. You know, when I think about justice, I can't think of any other more

fundamental truth than people born on U.S. soil, just like I was and generations of people before me,

are American. But unfortunately, it took some in my previous generation, some of my ancestors,

to go to the Supreme Court to have that affirmatively declared, as others have. And I think back

to 127 years ago, a Supreme Court case, which really laid out a core tenet of what it was meant to be an American.

There was a man who was born in San Francisco.

His parents left and returned to their country of origin because they could not receive citizenship in America.

So once, when he went to visit them and tried to return to the U.S., he was denied reentry.

What was the basis?

A claim that he was not a citizen because his parents aren't.

In his case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled, no, he absolutely is a citizen

because he was born in San Francisco.

That man, Juan Kim Ark, has now, his name has now become synonymous with the Supreme Court blessing that foundational principle that took a constitutional amendment for descendants of enslaved people and then another Supreme Court case to affirm that that applies to others born in the United States.

The Supreme Court is now taking that issue up again in a way in deciding about the legality of one of the Trump administration's Trump's, executive orders that seeks to strip

that birthright citizenship from some children born to Americans, frankly, that he doesn't like.

I can't really find another justification for it. He wants to pick and choose. Who is an American?

And the question is, what will the Supreme Court rule?

And to help me break this down.

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