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Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

Today's episode is one I have thought about doing for really many years, and I moved it up to the top of the list after I heard a clip from the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara.

That is the U.S. Supreme Court case on the question of whether Executive Order 14160,

protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship, is consistent with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution,

which is the part that reads, quote, all persons born or naturalized in the United States,

and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction

thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state we're in. They reside. So this Supreme

Court case involves three families whose children were born in the United States, but they would

not be considered citizens under this executive order because of their parents' residency status.

The parents include an asylum applicant, someone who was on a student visa, and somebody

who was in the process of applying for permanent residency.

So during these oral arguments, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said to Solicitor General John Sauer, quote,

When we ruled in thinned that Indians could not become citizens,

the government then after began to unnaturalize many Indians who had been sworn in as citizens.

She went on to ask whether the logic that Sauer was using in his

arguments would lead to the same thing happening again. So that quote from Sotomayor and the

idea that the U.S. stripped people of their citizenship based on their nation of origin,

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