It's right now. Hi, Ari.

Hi, Nicole. Thank you very much. And welcome to The Beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melba reporting on this

showdown today at the Supreme Court, where the Trump administration is trying to reverse a string

of losses in a long-shot bid to basically rewrite the Constitution. You can see the outside

of the court today. Some people gathered the lawyers arguing for the Trump

administration were confronted with their lower court losses. Judges have blocked Trump's now

feudal order that claimed he could somehow cancel the citizen protections that are in the U.S.

Constitution. So this lawyer was pressed on why on behalf of the Trump DOJ, they would even try to

go and bring this case.

In other words, the Supreme Court judges were asking, why should we even take what has been

this losing case as an appeal?

Here is exactly how Justice Kagan crisply put it in her questioning.

You're losing a bunch of cases. Why would you ever take this case to us?

You're losing. Why take it to us? That's the Supreme Court Justice today, referring to how

the Trump immigration appeal has been a losing case for Trump,

and it is not even close. Some stories are complicated. This one is simple. This is because the

Constitution already very clearly states that people born here are citizens. All persons born or

naturalized in the U.S. are citizens, period. This has actually been a

point of pride that the United States has defined citizenship this way uniformly. In other words,

not by religion or not saying, you're born here and you're a citizen unless you believe in this or that.

No, you're born here, you're a citizen. The language is clear,

so it's not even close when it comes to what lawyers call interpretation, because sometimes

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