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12 segmentsGood morning. I'm Ed Donahue with an AP News Minute. The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship. President Trump issued an executive order declaring children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. House Speaker Mike Johnson backs the president. This has been grossly abused in recent years, okay? And that is the case that was being made by the plaintiffs in the case. And we're very sympathetic to that because they're very sympathetic to that. It is a serious problem. The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment adopted after the Civil War. And more recent federal laws in ruling anyone born in the country with very limited exceptions is a citizen.
The birthright citizenship order, which the president signed on the first day of his second term, is part of the administration's broad immigration crackdown. The Supreme Court also backed state laws banning transgender girls from sports. I'm Ed Donahue.