What today’s birthright-citizenship case is really about

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  Good morning. It's Thursday, May 15th.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the Republicans raising concerns about Trump's Qatari jet gift.

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  In manufacturing towns, support for tariffs is a mixed bag.

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  And why women feel the effects of alcohol more than men.

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  But first,

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  the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case that stems from President Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship,

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  the constitutional right that guarantees automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S.,

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  regardless of their parents' citizenship or immigration status.

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  Trump, in his first day in office, signed an executive order seeking to end this right.

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  Attorneys general from 22 states, advocacy groups,

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  and a number of individual immigrant plaintiffs have since challenged his order.

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  And federal judges in three states have issued injunctions to block it from being enforced nationwide.

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  One judge called it blatantly unconstitutional.

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  But that's not actually what the Supreme Court is looking at.

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  Trump administration did not ask the Supreme Court to decide whether Trump's executive order is constitutional.

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  Maureen Groppi is the Supreme Court correspondent for USA Today.

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  It asked the Supreme Court to narrow the holds that judges around the country have put on the policy.

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  These judges have said this policy can't be implemented.

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