Today is a victory for immigrant families, but it is also a victory for every American

who believes in fairness, equality and the Constitution of the United States of America.

Today's ruling offers reassurance that their children's rights remain protected.

But this decision must also remind us that protecting constitutional rights requires

constant vigilance.

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Constant vigilance is right because in Donald Trump's

America, none of us can afford to be complacent. In many instances, Donald Trump's priorities may seem

to flip and flop and he may seem to snooze through some of them. First he's for something,

then he doesn't care, then he seems to abandon it altogether. But when it came to

birthright citizenship and ending it, Trump's interest in this issue was clear and consistent.

It was always something he felt very strongly about, sort of like tariffs. The executive order

that today's Supreme Court ruling weighed in on was when he signed on the first day of his

second term as president. Trump even showed up for

oral arguments in this case back in April, becoming the first sitting president of the United

States of America to do that. So his loss today at the hands of a majority conservative Supreme

Court, many of the members he picked, is a big one. But as we discussed over the last hour, the ruling was

actually closer than it looks. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the majority that Trump's

executive order was illegal, yet he dissented in part and seemed to give Congress an instruction

or invitation to keep fighting this issue. Donald Trump seized on that perceived invitation and called on Congress to act

immediately. Republican Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri responded posting this on social media,

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