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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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Let's talk about SCOTUS agreeing to hear Trump’s birthright citizenship case....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
| 0:05.0 | So today, we're going to talk about SCOTUS agreeing to hear Trump's birthright citizenship case. |
| 0:13.0 | The Supreme Court agreed to take up one of the most consequential questions in U.S. law. |
| 0:20.0 | Whether the principle of birthright citizenship |
| 0:22.8 | survives a direct challenge from the president. |
| 0:26.5 | In other words, whether being born on U.S. soil |
| 0:29.8 | continues to guarantee citizenship, as it has in the past, |
| 0:34.6 | or if the D.C. establishment can slowly whittle away who gets to be considered an American. |
| 0:42.0 | On his very first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order, aiming to strip that guarantee |
| 0:49.1 | away from children born undocumented immigrants, or people here only temporarily. |
| 0:56.0 | The idea, if your parents aren't citizens or permanent residents, you don't get automatic citizenship. |
| 1:03.0 | What used to be a given would instead become conditional. |
| 1:08.0 | Courts all across the country didn't buy it. Judges unanimously blocked that |
| 1:13.3 | order, saying it violates the 14th Amendment, which is the part of the Constitution that has |
| 1:19.5 | served for over a century to guarantee that all persons born are naturalized in the United States |
| 1:26.6 | and subject to the jurisdiction thereof |
| 1:29.3 | are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. |
| 1:35.3 | But now, the Supreme Court said it would hear the case. |
| 1:40.3 | That means we're on the brink of a historic showdown over what U.S. citizen actually means. |
| 1:47.8 | Oral arguments are likely next spring, with a decision expected by early summer. |
| 1:54.2 | If the court rules in favor of the administration, the consequences are massive. |
| 1:59.7 | Potentially, millions of people could be denied citizenship, |
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