Good morning. It's Friday, May 16th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, what's in the GOP's big tax bill,
the EPA's regulatory rollback on forever chemicals in drinking water,
and the world's first patient treated with personalized gene editing therapy.
But first, the Supreme Court seems torn over what to do with the birthright citizenship case.
As we mentioned yesterday,
the constitutionality of Trump's order calling to end birthright citizenship is not what the court is being asked to consider.
Rather, justices yesterday were asked to weigh the limits of judicial power
and whether a lower court is allowed to block an executive order like this one from being enforced nationwide.
The Trump administration has asked the court to scale back the nationwide injunctions against his order
so they can apply to only those who are pregnant,
immigrant advocacy groups, and residents of the 22 states that challenged his order in the courts.
Here's Solicitor General D. John Sauer arguing on behalf of the administration.
For more than a century,
most scholars and courts have agreed that the 14th Amendment is not exclusively about slavery,
and that it plainly states intent that every child born within the territory of the United States is a citizen.
The defendants, meanwhile,
argued that restricting the scope of injunctions would go against the Constitution and previous court rulings.