It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Well, as we begin our show today, the Supreme Court is about to begin to hear oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case,

officially called Trump v. Barbara. This is about his executive order that says babies born in the

U.S. to parents who are not citizens or legal permanent residents do not get to be automatic

United States citizens. This would reinterpret the straightforward language

in the 14th Amendment, which says, quote, all persons born or naturalized in the United States

and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. This is estimated

to affect about 250,000 births a year in this country. The arguments are

scheduled to last one hour. So here's what we're going to do. We have two Brian Larrow show

producers listening in to take notes and pull some clips. Then at the end of the hour, right

around 11 o'clock or just after, we'll bring on legal

legal Emily Bazelon from Yale Law School and the New York Times to listen to those clips with us

and describe what just happened in the landmark case and also, of course, give us her sense

of whether swing justices like John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett,

who are considered potential swing justices in this case,

seem inclined to uphold birthright citizenship or not.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Lemire is here, co-host of Morning Joe on MS Now,

staff writer for the Atlantic, and author of the book, The Big Lie. We'll talk about

this case, also a new Trump executive order that may also wind up quickly at the Supreme

Court to limit mail-in voting before the midterm elections. Also, the president's announcement

that for the first time during the Iran war, he will address the American people with a live

speech about it tonight. So it's no April Fool's joke when I say this April 1st is shaping up

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