Today in One Sentence. The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship by executive order; the Supreme Court eliminated the decades-old limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates running for office; Speaker Mike Johnson sent the bipartisan housing affordability bill to Trump and said it’ll become law even if Trump refuses to sign it; the House passed a bipartisan kids online safety package to impose federal rules on social media platforms, AI chatbots, data brokers, and porn sites, sending the KIDS Act to a Senate where sponsors have already warned the House version is dead on arrival; the Supreme Court ruled that the police need a warrant to use cellphone location data; and the Supreme Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws banning transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports teams.

1/ The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship by executive order, reaffirming more than a century of legal precedent under the 14th Amendment that nearly everyone born on U.S. soil is an American citizen. The 6-3 ruling invalidates Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders. The policy that never took effect after lower courts blocked it. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights,” and that the 14th Amendment extended that promise to “every free-born person in this land.” Trump, meanwhile, called the decision “too bad for our Country” and urged Congress to end birthright citizenship by legislation. (New York Times / NBC News / ABC News / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / NPR / Associated Press / Politico / Washington Post)

2/ The Supreme Court eliminated the decades-old limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates running for office. The 6-3 ruling lets national party committees spend unlimited amounts in coordination with individual campaigns. Donors can give far more to political parties than directly to candidates, meaning parties can now direct a much larger pool of money toward individual campaigns. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the decision lets all parties “compete more fully” and coordinate more closely with their candidates, while Justice Elena Kagan warned that, without the limits, “the party can serve as the candidate’s checking account.” The case was brought by JD Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign and Republican committees, then backed by Trump’s Justice Department after the federal government stopped defending the law. (New York Times / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / Associated Press / Politico / NBC News)

3/ Speaker Mike Johnson sent the bipartisan housing affordability bill to Trump and said it’ll become law even if Trump refuses to sign it, saying Trump “won’t veto the bill” and can simply let it take effect after 10 days. Trump, who abruptly canceled the signing ceremony last week, called the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act “a big yawn” and “so unimportant” compared with the stalled SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot. Johnson said Trump told him he’d “think about it.” (USA Today / CNN / New York Times / ABC News / Reuters / Politico)

4/ The House passed a bipartisan kids online safety package to impose federal rules on social media platforms, AI chatbots, data brokers, and porn sites, sending the KIDS Act to a Senate where sponsors have already warned the House version is dead on arrival. The 267-117 vote marks the first time a version of KOSA has cleared the House, but the bill strips out the Senate’s central “duty of care” provision requiring platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent harms to minors. Sen. Richard Blumenthal called the House version “dead in the Senate,” while Sen. Maria Cantwell said the Senate is “not interested” in preempting state lawsuits and stronger state protections. Privacy and digital rights groups, meanwhile, warned that the bill’s age-checking provisions could push platforms toward broader identity checks for everyone. (Politico / The Hill / NBC News / Axios)

5/ The Supreme Court ruled that the police need a warrant to use cellphone location data, rejecting the Trump administration’s argument that the Fourth Amendment didn’t apply because users had shared the data with Google. In a 6-3 vote, the court found that the use of broad “geofence” surveillance, which sweeps up location data from cellphones near crime scenes, constitutes a search under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The court, however, didn’t answer whether the warrant used to identify Okello Chatrie after a 2019 Virginia bank robbery was too broad or lacked probable cause. Justice Elena Kagan wrote that police “intrude” on a protected privacy interest when they demand cellphone-location records, warning that the data can give the government a “virtual panopticon” to scrutinize people’s movements. Justice Samuel Alito dissented, calling the ruling an “irresponsible escapade” that would send “seismic waves” through Fourth Amendment law. (CNN / Washington Post / NPR / New York Times / Associated Press / NBC News)

6/ The Supreme Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws banning transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s school sports teams. The ruling reverses a pair of lower court decisions that had blocked the bans as violations of Title IX and the 14th Amendment, and will likely be used by 25 other states with similar laws. The ruling, however, doesn’t create a nationwide ban. (Reuters / ABC News / NBC News / Bloomberg / Axios / New York Times)

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