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Supreme Court wraps term with decisions on birthright citizenship, Obamacare and more

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USA TODAY

Daily News, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe recaps the final day of the high court's term. We discuss decisions ranging from birthright citizenship to Obamacare, LGBTQ+ books in public schools and more.

Undocumented immigrants face massive fines under a new Trump rule.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will end trade talks with Canada.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for defamation.

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Saturday, June 28, 2025. This is USA Today is the excerpt.

0:14.4

Today we put the Supreme Court's busy end to its term in context. Plus millions of people living illegally in the United States are facing

0:21.4

stiff new fines and California's governor sues Fox News. The Supreme Court handed down a slew of

0:31.0

decisions to wrap up its term yesterday. I spoke with USA Today Supreme Court correspondent Maureen

0:35.7

Grappie to break them down.

0:39.4

Thanks for hopping on.

0:40.6

Hey, thanks for having me.

0:44.9

Let's start with the court's move to lift temporary blocks on President Donald Trump's order,

0:49.1

ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the country temporarily or without legal authorization.

0:51.6

What are the implications here, Maureen?

0:53.2

It's a little unclear right now. The

0:55.5

majority of the court said that the judges who had put the president's policies on hold everywhere

1:01.7

in the nation, that they overstep their authority and they need to try to narrow the holes.

1:06.8

But we don't know exactly how that's going to happen. And the court also left open other ways that those who are challenging the policy can try to do so.

1:15.0

And in fact, the challengers already filed a class action suit to try to protect people while the president's policy is being challenged in court.

1:24.3

I mean, on that note, Maureen, 14th Amendment advocates are worried here.

1:27.5

We've heard Oregon's attorney general say that the state's fight on this issue is not over.

1:31.9

So really, what is next? Where do we go? So the states who are fighting this, and they're not the only

1:36.4

ones fighting at immigrant rights groups are as well. But the states that are fighting this,

1:40.5

they're going to continue to look for ways to keep the president's policy on hold while they

1:46.2

continue to challenge the legality of what he's doing. And we could see some action on that in the next

1:52.1

few months. So what the court did yesterday did not at all look at whether the president's policy is

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