Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, issues final rulings of its term
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🗓️ 30 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court affirmed birthright citizenship for Americans. |
| 0:06.3 | A majority rejected a campaign finance restriction. |
| 0:09.0 | And the court upheld a ban on transgender students in girls' sports. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Michelle Martin with Steve Inskeep, and this is a special episode of Up First from NPR News. |
| 0:20.4 | The court rejected President Trump's bid to deny citizenship to some children born in the U.S. |
| 0:26.2 | The president had personally attended arguments in trying to overturn the language of the Constitution. |
| 0:31.7 | Republicans won a different case that lets the party spend money in coordination with individual candidates, |
| 0:36.9 | and the court combined two cases on transgender athletes. |
| 0:40.4 | States may require students to play on boys or girls' teams based on biological sex. |
| 0:45.5 | What did the decisions reveal about the court and the country? |
| 0:48.6 | Stay with us. |
| 0:49.4 | We've got analysis of today's rulings. The Supreme Court has issued the final decisions of this term. |
| 1:03.0 | The court ruled that President Trump's executive order trying to limit automatic citizenship to babies born in the U.S. is unconstitutional. |
| 1:10.1 | The court also struck down limits on how |
| 1:11.9 | much political parties can raise and spend on candidates, and it let states ban transgender girls |
| 1:17.6 | from participating in sports at publicly funded schools. Joining us to talk about today's decisions are |
| 1:22.6 | NPR Supreme Court and Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, Legal Affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, |
| 1:27.9 | and senior national political correspondent Mara Liason. Nina, I'm going to go to you first. Let's start |
| 1:33.3 | with a birthright citizenship decision, eagerly awaited decision by all parties. What struck you |
| 1:38.4 | about the decision? It wasn't a surprise that the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order |
| 1:47.6 | that would have denied citizenship to babies born in the United States |
| 1:52.4 | who were here, whose parents were here illegally or even legally on visas. |
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