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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. |
0:05.4 | And I'm Omna Nawaz on the news hour tonight. |
0:08.0 | I want to just thank again the Supreme Court for this ruling. It's a giant. |
0:13.0 | A massive legal win for President Trump. The U.S. Supreme Court severely limits federal judges' ability to block presidential |
0:21.3 | policies nationwide, including an effort to end birthright citizenship. |
0:25.9 | Congressional Republicans wonder if the big bill can pass as it gets slimmer with |
0:31.1 | provisions on school vouchers and guns struck from the legislation. |
0:35.7 | And we speak with Venezuelan immigrants in Chicago, |
0:38.3 | who are now living in fear |
0:40.3 | after their temporary legal status is revoked. |
0:46.3 | In my country, there is no legal process. |
0:49.3 | And now living through this situation, |
0:51.3 | it feels the same as what happened in Venezuela. |
1:12.8 | Welcome to the News Hour. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major decision today, one that will limit federal judges' power to block the president's agenda nationwide. The decision, which |
1:17.9 | resulted from a case related to an executive order on birthright citizenship, rules that individual |
1:23.6 | judges cannot grant nationwide injunctions to block any policies coming from the White |
1:28.9 | House. The court ruled six to three along partisan lines. In her opinion, Justice Amy Coney-Barritt |
1:34.4 | wrote, no one disputes that the executive has a duty to follow the law, but the judiciary |
1:39.0 | does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation. In fact, sometimes the law prohibits the |
1:45.4 | judiciary from doing so. The justices did not rule on the merits of the Trump administration's |
1:50.8 | restrictions on birthright citizenship, but the president welcomed the ruling during a press briefing |
1:55.7 | today. Thanks to this decision, we can now properly file to proceed with these numerous policies |
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