00:00This is an incredibly important case, and as was noted by our Solicitor General today,
00:20Noah Purcell, the absurdity and the radical nature of what the Trump administration is
00:26arguing today. What they have been arguing today and have been part of their arguments since the
00:31beginning of this unconstitutional executive order is to overturn over a century of law and
00:38precedent and Supreme Court holdings in the United States to change the way that multiple
00:43presidents, the Supreme Court, and Congress has interpreted the birthright citizenship
00:49clause of the 14th Amendment.
00:56We're also talking about upending the lives and identities of citizens of this country
01:04who, through a stroke of a pen from the president, would no longer be citizens in the United States
01:10and the absurdity and harm that would come from that. And so I'm really confident moving forward
01:14that this court and ultimately the Supreme Court will rule in the state's favors.
01:19It's not just about how the case has been interpreted in the courts. It's about the
01:32president's authority to rewrite the Constitution. The president has a massive authority, but what
01:39he does not have is authority to rewrite the Constitution, to change things that he doesn't
01:45like. And that's what we're here to do, is to ensure the rule of law, to ensure that the president
01:50is not permitted to overstep the bounds that he's confined with by the rule of law.
01:56One of our plaintiffs gave birth to her child roughly one week after the effective date of the executive
02:13order, but for the district court's action, would have been left unprotected. And her mother
02:18comes to us still and says, what's happening now? What's the status today? Still concerned about
02:24how this is going to affect her child, whether a child is going to have access to health care,
02:28to education.
02:40We've already had clients who've approached us who had taken their children out of school
02:44because they were concerned about the impact. And so it's so critical that the courts continue
02:50to resoundingly reject this attempt to overturn what is well-established law.
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