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Hi everyone!

And special shout out to all of you who were just with us for two and a half

hours on the live blog of those oral arguments. And a special thank you to professors Will

Bode and Amanda Tyler, who joined us for that live blog. So let me set up what we were just

doing and listening to in that oral argument. The Supreme Court, as we said, just listened to

two and a half hours of oral arguments on this emergency appeal, interim relief appeal.

We can have a debate about what we're calling that docket in a few minutes.

Related to Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship. So, and by the way, since we normally do this as just a podcast, you guys don't see me read off all my tabs, but I do. I don't always have this stuff memorized.

So the, you know, substantive part of that executive

order was that when a person's mother is unlawfully present in the United States and a person's

father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's

birth, or when that person's mother's presence

in the United States was lawful but temporary and the person's father was not a United States

citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth, they would not

automatically get American citizenship as they do now. So it's that illegal presence or temporary

presence would not have birthright citizenship

automatically under the 14th Amendment as we've been doing since the passage of the 14th Amendment in

1868. Now, we had a number of lower courts issue, so-called universal injunctions, nationwide injunctions,

preventing this order from going into effect. The Trump administration then asked the

Supreme Court to hear this. And what was so interesting was that in their briefing to the

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