Supreme Court, California Elections, The Missing in Mexico
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. Constitution says people born in the United States are citizens. |
| 0:06.7 | The Supreme Court will soon tell us if that right still stands. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Ayesha Roscoe. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Ada Peralta, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:16.9 | Hundreds of thousands of children are born to non-citizen parents every year. Will the Supreme Court allow the president to revoke their birthright citizenship? |
| 0:24.6 | Also, prediction markets are burning up with people claiming fraud, |
| 0:28.6 | as votes are being counted in the election for mayor of Los Angeles. |
| 0:32.6 | They're all pro-Trump influencers. |
| 0:34.6 | And hundreds of Mexican families whose loved ones have disappeared, hope the World Cup |
| 0:40.0 | is a chance to have their stories heard. |
| 0:42.5 | Stay with us. |
| 0:47.2 | The Supreme Court is entering the final weeks of this term with decisions likely before the end of the month in nearly two dozen cases, including some that may be blockbusters. |
| 1:03.3 | NPR Supreme Court correspondent Kerry Johnson joins us to give us the rundown. Hey, Carrie. Hey, how are you? |
| 1:09.7 | Good. Carrie, the Supreme Court hasn't yet ruled on |
| 1:12.8 | birthright citizenship. What's at stake here? The biggest case of this term and the one that's |
| 1:18.0 | most important to President Trump involves immigration, specifically that executive order he signed |
| 1:23.6 | on day one after he returned to the White House. That order would strip the guarantee |
| 1:28.5 | of birthright citizenship to babies born on American soil. For more than a century, |
| 1:33.7 | people have understood the 14th Amendment to ensure all persons born here are Americans. At oral |
| 1:39.7 | argument, the Trump administration had a rough go of things, even several of the conservative justices, |
| 1:45.8 | cast doubt on the administration's position. Most notably, Chief Justice John Roberts, |
| 1:50.9 | who told the Solicitor General, it's a new world, but it's the same constitution. |
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