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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, this was a big one, wasn't it? |
0:04.1 | This was a big decision. |
0:05.8 | From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily. |
0:09.9 | This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, |
0:15.7 | the separation of powers, and the rule of law. |
0:19.4 | In a major ruling on Friday, the Supreme Court limited the ability of judges to block President |
0:24.9 | Trump's policies nationwide, including his order to end birthright citizenship. |
0:30.1 | I'm grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex |
0:37.1 | problem, and they've made it very simple. |
0:39.1 | The ruling was immediately cheered by the president. |
0:41.5 | It is a big blow to our ability to enforce our rights. |
0:46.1 | While critics have decried it as a fundamental threat to the rule of law. |
0:49.9 | But this is just chaos that they've unleashed in the judicial system for no reason at all. |
0:54.9 | That kind of ruling establishes not just an imperial executive, but an imperial Supreme Court. |
1:02.8 | Today, my colleague Adam Liptack explains how the ruling redefines the role of the courts |
1:08.3 | at a moment when the White House is aggressively testing the |
1:11.6 | limits of its power. It's Monday, June 30th. |
1:24.2 | Adam, we're talking to you just a couple days after the ruling by the Supreme Court in this birthright citizenship case. |
1:30.6 | And the ruling has pretty big implications, not just for the case, but really for the role of the courts, and also for a presidency that has been testing the limits of its power and of the law since President Trump took office back in January. |
1:44.1 | Yeah, the decision has a lot of moving pieces, Rachel. And as you say, it's nominally about |
1:49.8 | birthright citizenship, but really it's about the power of the courts to check the president. |
1:56.9 | And the court gave President Trump a big victory. It severely limited the ability of lower court judges |
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