And so after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was enacted principally to undo Dred Scott,

meaning that enslaved people, their children, are citizens and will forever more be citizens.

In fact, what the 14th Amendment says is that anyone born in this country or naturalized,

and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are U.S.

citizens. And so the debate now is, what does that phrase mean, subject to the jurisdiction

of? There's an 1898 Supreme Court case, Wong Kim Arc, that seems to answer the question.

The president and his team took another swing at it. And so to answer your question, why is this before the Supreme Court?

It's because the president issued an executive order on his first day in his second term,

trying to undo what we think is the common understanding of the 14th Amendment.

And that's the problem I have with Donald

Trump, because he doesn't give a damn about that. He doesn't care about that because he wants to get

his way. And he wants to appease a very small sect of Americans who don't like their fellow

Americans. And they don't like the people who are coming here because they don't look

like them. They don't sound like them. They don't have their hair like them. They don't talk like

them. They don't make the movements that they've defined as American. So if nothing else,

the Supreme Court tomorrow from where I see can settle that piece. That this, you're born here, you're an American citizen,

regardless of your parent's status, regardless of your granddaddy status, regardless of the

color of your skin or where you're from. That to me is an important aspect of this. The flip side

of that coin is what Donald Trump thinks, and I would love to get your

thoughts, when you look at those two pieces, Donald Trump thinks that his way to win the

argument is to basically crap all over the judges. Sometime this summer, a majority of the

justices come back and say, we agree with Donald Trump. How then are you able to prove you are a citizen in this country?

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