Good morning. In today’s edition:

• 🧑‍⚖️ SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship
• 🏀 Clippers trade Kawhi Leonard
• 💒 Taylor and Travis to marry on Sunday

…and much more.

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"Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles."

–Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

The Supreme Court yesterday rejected President Trump's effort to restrict birthright citizenship, rejecting a signature immigration policy that sought to reinterpret the constitutional principle that nearly everyone born on US soil is a citizen.

The case centered on an executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office, declaring that children born in the US would no longer automatically receive citizenship if their parents were in the country illegally or in the US on temporary visas.

Lower courts quickly blocked the order, preventing it from taking effect and sending the dispute to the nation's highest court.

A majority of Justices sided with lower court rulings in a 6-3 decision against Trump's executive order.

• Five justices concluded the executive order violated the Constitution.
• The sixth, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, agreed the order couldn't take effect, but based his vote on a 1940 law enacted by Congress instead of the Constitution.

Breaking down the decision

The Trump administration argued that the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause had been misunderstood for more than a century, saying the amendment was written after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship for formerly enslaved Americans, and shouldn’t apply to children born to parents living in the US illegally or temporarily.

They also supported the executive order as a way to discourage "birth tourism," where immigrants travel to the US to give birth and secure citizenship for their child.

But the majority disagreed, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing that the 14th Amendment's text, historical record, and the Supreme Court's 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision all support birthright citizenship for nearly everyone born on American soil, adding there was "scant evidence" supporting the Trump admin's interpretation.

• On the flip side, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch sided with Trump.
• In their dissent, the Justices argued that the majority’s decision expands the 14th Amendment beyond its original meaning, and gives too little weight to its historical context.

Zoom out: The birthright citizenship case was one of several major rulings released on the final day of the Supreme Court’s term. In separate 6-3 decisions, Justices upheld state laws restricting transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's school sports, and struck down federal limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates due to First Amendment violations.

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BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 S&P 500 and Nasdaq close best quarters since 2020, with the Dow also delivering its best results since 2022 (For Q2: S&P: +15% | Dow: +13% | Nasdaq: +21%).
• 🤖 Amazon Web Service announces $1 billion investment in new Forward Deployed Engineering unit to help AWS customers build and deploy AI systems.
• 🥚 Three major egg producers—Cal-Maine Foods, Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch—agree pay $3.3 million and donate 50 million eggs to settle federal probe into alleged price manipulation. | 🚘 Ford recalls 740,000+ vehicles due to transmission defects that could cause the park function to engage while in motion; it covers certain Expedition, Navigator, Explorer, Aviator, and F-150 models from 2018-21.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 NBA offseason action: LA Clippers reportedly agree to trade Kawhi Leonard to Toronto Raptors in exchange for a collection of players and draft picks; free agent LeBron James announces plans to return for unprecedented 24th NBA season, but says he’s leaving the LA Lakers.
• 🎾 Serena Williams, 44, falls in three sets in her Wimbledon comeback match against 20-year-old Maya Joint; it was Williams’ first singles match in nearly four years.
• 💍 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to marry this weekend at Madison Square Garden, per multiple reports.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🧬🎨 Ancient human DNA discovered on prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls for the first time; it demonstrates the potential to one day identify individual artists, and resolve debate over Neanderthals’ artistic abilities.
• 🔭 Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the largest digital camera ever built that’s perched on a Chilean mountaintop, begins its 10-year-long mission to map billions of stars and galaxies.
• 🚬 FDA authorizes Zyn nicotine pouches to be marketed as less harmful than cigarettes; scientists generally agree pouches are safer than smoking, though they remain concerned about cardiovascular effects.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

• 🪙 President Trump earned an estimated $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, the first year of his presidency, new disclosure reveals; funds largely came from a UAE-linked firm’s deal to buy nearly half of the Trump family’s main crypto company, along with sales of his $TRUMP memecoin.
• ⛪ Pope Leo XIV issues final plea to Society of Saint Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic group with ~600,000 members, to give up plans to ordain new bishops without Vatican approval; Leo says the bishops will face automatic excommunication, while the society says it still plans to hold ordinations today.
• 🏛️ DOJ launches investigation into Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) for possible campaign finance violations, per reports; case was reportedly prompted by a whistleblower complaint over alleged use of campaign funds for family trips since 2019.

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