00:00In an unprecedented move, President Trump attended Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday,
00:05the first sitting president ever to do so, as the court heard challenges to his executive order
00:11seeking to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants.
00:17The administration's solicitor general argued the current policy demeans American citizenship
00:22and fuels illegal immigration. While Chief Justice Roberts pushed back,
00:27questioning how the government could leap from narrow historical exceptions
00:31to stripping citizenship from an entire class of people born on U.S. soil.
00:36If the order is upheld, it would affect tens of thousands of babies born in the U.S. each month,
00:42overturning over 150 years of constitutional interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
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