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Birthright citizenship debate, Florida bans fluoride, gene edited baby & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We start with key moments from the Supreme Court’s hearing on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order. Israel is ramping up strikes in Gaza, killing dozens. Another state is banning fluoride in public drinking water. We’ll tell you where dangerous storms are developing in the US. Plus, the custom therapy that’s helping a desperately ill baby thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From CNN, I'm a FOMADK, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, May 15th.

0:38.6

The Supreme Court heard more than two hours of arguments today over President Donald

0:43.8

Trump's move to end birthright citizenship. And justices seemed open to lifting a series of

0:49.3

nationwide orders, blocking the administration's policy, even as several justices wrestled with the practical

0:55.8

implications of allowing the government to deny citizenship to some people born in the U.S.

1:01.5

The main question for the justices was whether lower courts went too far by blocking Trump's

1:06.5

executive order nationwide. Five of the six conservative justices seem open to backing the president

1:12.9

on that, but didn't seem ready to endorse a departure from the longstanding precedent upholding

1:18.3

birthright citizenship. Liberal justices battered Solicitor General D. John Sauer with questions

1:24.7

on how rolling back nationwide injunctions would work.

1:28.2

And Justice Katanji Brown-Jackson pressed Sauer on whether a universal injunction in the case

1:33.3

could lead to requiring every individual to file their own lawsuit.

1:37.0

The real concern, I think, is that your argument seems to turn our justice system, in my view at least,

1:44.1

into a catch-me-if-you-can kind of regime

1:47.5

from the standpoint of the executive, where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit

1:53.6

in order for the government to stop violating people's rights. I think the catch-me-if-you-can

1:58.7

problem operates in the opposite direction where we have the government

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