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  I'm Jonathan Tamari, senior Washington reporter for Bloomberg Government, and each weekday I'll be coming to you with inside-the-room reporting and insights that reveal what's really happening in Washington—and how it impacts you. Email me with feedback and comments here. If this newsletter was forwarded to you sign up here. Today, the Supreme Court takes up birthright citizenship, up-and-coming Republicans want to pull MAGA further right, and Trump will address the nation about Iran. Trump's Citizenship TestWho is an American? The question underscores much of Donald Trump's politics. His answer faces one of its biggest tests at the Supreme Court today. The high court holds a hearing this morning on Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship and rewrite more than 150 years of constitutional law. At stake is the citizenship of an estimated 250,000 children of undocumented immigrants and temporary visitors to the US every year, along with the long-standing legal interpretation that virtually anyone born on US soil is an American. Trump said late yesterday he'll take the extraordinary step of attending the hearing himself. It'll be a test of two pillars of his second term:
When challenged Trump has often lost, but court cases take a long time, while he keeps moving. (Just yesterday new legal rulings blocked his attempts to defund NPR and PBS, and moved to stop work on his White House ballroom).  John Roberts, chief justice of the US Supreme Court, at this year's State of the Union Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg Trump's order on citizenship is one of his most audacious moves, targeting rules recognized since the 14th Amendment was ratified in the 1800s. The Supreme Court upheld the widely used interpretation of it in 1898. Multiple lower courts have roundly rejected the executive order. "The federal government is advancing a fringe theory that no court has ever adopted," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Bloomberg Television yesterday. Those challenging Trump may be helped by the fact that they can appeal to the court's conservative majority by leaning on originalist arguments, Greg Stohr explains. Trump's DOJ argues the executive order follows the original intentions of the 14th Amendment, limiting birthright citizenship to people subject to US political jurisdiction, BGOV's Justin Wise reported. "The children of immigrants who entered the US illegally aren't entitled to birthright citizenship because they can't owe primary allegiance to the US," Robert Luther III, a professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, wrote for Bloomberg Law. If the court agrees, it will be one of the biggest things this administration has done to change the face of the country. Top News
Watch  "If we had this crisis just 10 short years ago, you would see significantly higher prices in the United States. The US oil production and gas production has become a geopolitical insurance policy against the risk we see in the world," Mike Sommers, president & CEO of American Petroleum Institute, speaking on Bloomberg's Balance of Power. Listen Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway recorded a March 10 episode of Odd Lots with Alexander MacDonald, who served as NASA's first chief economist and is now a senior associate at the Aerospace Security Project at CSIS. Hear about why the space agency had economists, how space exploration is funded, and how NASA measures its own economic impact. Go Deeper With BGOVRepublicans have floated the idea of blocking states from spending grant money if they don't comply with stricter voting requirements in a voter ID bill, in what would be a major revamp of traditionally bipartisan election funds, BGOV's Karl Evers-Hillstrom writes. Congress provided over $1 billion in election security grants to states since fiscal 2018 to upgrade election infrastructure. Most of the money went toward cybersecurity, voting equipment and processes, and voter registration systems, according to a Bipartisan Policy Center report. States had already spent around 70% of existing grant money as of March 2025, and the pace of election funding has slowed since fiscal 2020, when the pandemic forced states to overhaul their election operations.  What's NextArtemis II is due to launch this evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the first manned ship around the moon in decades Retail sales and manufacturing data will be released this morning, along with ADP figures on employment Supreme Court hears arguments starting at 10 a.m. over birthright citizenship (as mentioned above) Happy Passover! More From BloombergLike Washington Edition? Check out these newsletters:
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Bloomberg Morning Briefing Americas Read in browser Good morning . Donald Trump will deliver a prime-time speech as market optimism grows over a possible end to the Iran war. We examine the issue of US birthright citizenship. And the president's White House ballroom hits a snag. Listen to the day's top stories . — Marc Perrier Market Snapshot S&P 500 Futures 6,618.25 +0.7% Nasdaq 100 Futures 24,133.00 +0.9% Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index 1,210.98 -0.4% Market data as of 07:10 AM ET....