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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in a six to three ruling announced
“today the majority of justices rejected President Trump's executive order aimed at ending”
the longstanding principle that nearly all children born in the U.S. including those born to immigrants in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are automatic citizens. NPR's Kerry Johnson describes how the majority of the court could have arrived at this major ruling. There were ways for the court majority to get here.
One was just to say, "Look at the words of the 14th Amendment," which are quite clear that subject to the jurisdiction thereof means you're here, you're born here on American soil. You're a citizen. In another way to get to this result, would be to look to a couple of statutes
that Congress passed, much after the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1940 and 1952.
These were immigration laws that basically codified the same language that was in the 14th
Amendment and the justice could have, could have used those more recent laws as a basis to come to some consensus.
“NPR's Kerry Johnson, the court ruled the Constitution, guarantees automatic birthright citizenship.”
The court upheld state laws, advanced transgender athletes from taking part in girls and women's sports and public schools. It also loosened campaign finance restrictions. Social media President Trump hails big GOP wins in these cases, on the birthright issue, he forwarded a right-leaning link saying Trump's ban may succeed with or without the Supreme
Court. Another news a president says he has not decided whether he will sign a bipartisan housing bill, or his NPR's Steven Bassaha. Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump dismissed the housing bill as unimportant.
The Save America Act is Trump's election overhaul bill that would mandate strict proof of citizenship requirements.
Trump said last week he wants that bill passed first.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of the housing bill last week.
“Legislation aims to encourage home-building across the country to lower costs.”
Steven Bassaha and PR news. Ukraine launched another wave of attack drones into Russia overnight, more from NPR as Charles Maine. Russia's defense ministry said its forces destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian attack drones in all, yet the wider effects of a sustained Ukrainian drone campaign targeting Russian
energy infrastructure continue to be felt. Several thousand miles away, drivers in Russia's Far East described long waits at castations as fuel shortages continued to ripple across the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged and conveniences to the public, but insisted
the problem is far from critical.
Charles Maine's MPR News Moscow. You're listening to NPR News. The educational testing service and nonprofit organization behind major standardized tests is acquiring a CT, that's a major college admissions exam. It appears a list in that warranty report.
ETS administers a number of exams already. The GRE for graduate admissions and the TOEFL, an English language test taken by many international students. And now they'll take over the ACT. More than a million students take the ACT each year as part of college applications and
to get their high school diploma. More than a dozen states include taking the ACT as a requirement to graduate. ETS has struggled in recent years with layoffs and biodes. It was historically the administrator of the SAT, another college admissions test that rivals the ACT, but in 2024 the college board, which owns the SAT, took the administration
over. A list of noteworthy NPR News. In Paraguay, the government is declared a national holiday today after what's being called the biggest upset of this summer's World Cup over Germany. More from Katherine Osborne.
When the two teams met on Monday afternoon in Foxboro, Massachusetts, a scrappy Paraguay fought Germany to a one-one tie, and then one on penalty kicks. Paraguay's president, Santiago Benja, decreed a national holiday was needed to mark what he called an epic triumph. For NPR News, I'm Katherine Osborne in Rio de Janeiro.
Earlier today, during NPR, special coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court and online NPR erroneously reported that, "Just as Samuel Lita was retiring, that is not correct. Lita was not retiring and the Supreme Court did not make the announcement. You're listening to NPR News." Recently, cyber security researchers discovered a striking computer virus, seemingly related
to the conflict between the U.S. and Iran over Iran's nuclear program. Everything about this thing screams special. A cunning cyberweb and meant to gaslight nuclear scientists, listen to plenty of money on
