MLB Trade Rumors By Mark Polishuk | May 4 Cox’s big league resume consists only of 35 2/3 innings of 4.54 ERA ball with Kansas City in 2023 so it is a little surprising to see him land a guaranteed deal offering a surefire 40-man roster spot isn’t an uncommon tactic if a team wants to outbid others to land a player with limited or even zero MLB experience The Braves might’ve also had a built-in advantage since Cox is from Macon so he’ll now get to play in his home state A fifth-round pick for the Royals in the 2018 draft Cox is changing organizations for the first time in his pro career His 2023 debut season in the Show came to an early and unfortunate end after he tore his ACL during a September game though he was able to make it back to action by mid-April 2024 and 15.2% walk rate in 55 Triple-A innings last season and 10.9BB% in 12 2/3 frames with Omaha this year Atlanta Braves Transactions Austin Cox 23 hours ago 22 hours ago 22 hours ago I wonder if he’ll ever wear a Brooklyn Billion Dodgers jersey 22 hours ago 22 hours ago 12 hours ago I’m just glad we haven’t had the usual play-on-name jokes …. 10 hours ago Log in Register MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball Register daughter of Christopher Cox and Annita (Connerley) Cox She graduated from Bedford North Lawrence High School in the class of 2011 She loved spending time with her son and nephew Surviving to cherish the memory of Kia are her father Grayson Frazier; and paternal grandparents Annita (Connerly) Cox; maternal grandparents Funeral services for Kia will be held at 1:00 p.m at the Ferguson-Lee Chapel of Thorne-George Family Funeral Homes in Bedford the family requests that memorials be made to the funeral home to help offset funeral expenses Memories and condolences may be shared, and flowers may be ordered at www.FergusonLee.com Serving Lawrence and surrounding counties since 1948 Marvel Studios delivered plenty of exciting surprises during the Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal including the return of some familiar faces from 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise it feels like this ensemble is far from complete While Kevin Feige has confirmed it wasn't the full cast one of the most disappointing omissions was Daredevil: Born Again star Charlie Cox Talking to Collider the actor was asked about not getting a chair and replied the way that information gets to us is the same way that it gets to everyone else normally It's a real shame that Cox won't be given the chance to assemble alongside the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes though the Russo Brothers might have some surprises in store for us (and Avengers: Secret Wars is up next it's looking increasingly likely that Marvel Studios is setting out to separate its film and TV offerings so it's possible the Man Without Fear will remain relegated to the small screen for now Cox also talked to the site about how his approach to Daredevil has evolved over the past decade: "The tricky thing that I’ve found when you’re playing a character for this many years is it was very clear to me how different Matt Murdock was from myself There are so many facets to him that was stuff that didn’t come to me naturally "My body transformed very quickly from all the gym work that I’d never done before not to mention things like the visual impairment and stuff like that I would go to work and I felt like I was putting on this big character and my job then was to make sure that despite it feeling like a big character that also I was trying to ground him in reality." "What’s happening now is that the suit of armor that I would put on it doesn’t feel like I’m putting a suit of armor on You put on the shoes and you walk on set and the muscle memory kicks in and it’s there the challenge now is to make sure that you’re not overdoing it to try and make it feel like you’re playing the character and just trust that that blurry line where the character meets the actor is consistent with what it’s always been." Cox's future may not be as a member of The Avengers but Daredevil: Born Again is currently in production The expectation is that the series will return for season 3 becoming a yearly streaming title on Disney+ Here's the confirmed Avengers: Doomsday cast list as things currently stand: A rumour also came out last week claiming that Avengers: Doomsday will also feature Mark Ruffalo Avengers: Doomsday is set to be released on May 1 2026 with Avengers: Secret Wars scheduled to arrive on May 7 You can find him at Threads @mickmartin182 either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content as the lead of Disney+'s "Daredevil: Born Again" Charlie Cox was arguably the most visible Marvel star around Yet when Marvel Studios unveiled all 27 names in its 5-hour-long "Avengers: Doomsday" announcement there was no chair for with his name on it Asked about the absence by Collider Read More: Marvel Releases New Avengers Teaser For fans wanting to see Daredevil hopping rooftops in "Avengers: Doomsday" it's been confirmed several times that there will be new names added to the cast list of "Doomsday" we now know Benedict Cumberbatch will appear in the film even though his name wasn't on any of the chairs Both Cox and Andrew Garfield fibbed hard about not appearing in 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home" For the sake of that movie's promotional lead-up all by itself no one may ever trust another actor regarding whether or not they're really showing up in a Marvel movie it might be difficult for Cox to show up in "Avengers: Doomsday" considering he's currently shooting season 2 of "Daredevil: Born Again" Cox talked to Collider about the differences between playing Daredevil now and playing the character back when he first began "The tricky thing that I've found when you're playing a character for this many years is There are so many facets to him that were stuff that didn't come to me naturally "What's happening now is that the suit of armor that I would put on it doesn't feel like I'm putting a suit of armor on," Cox said "You put on the shoes and you walk on set and the muscle memory kicks in and it's there the challenge now is to make sure that you're not overdoing it to try and make it feel like you're playing the character and just trust that that blurry line where the character meets the actor is consistent with what it's always been." Colin Farrell DC Movie Canceled Blade Reboot Costume Designer Confirms Wildest Theory About Failed Film Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsweek is committed to journalism that is factual and fair We value your input and encourage you to rate this article Newsletters in your inbox See all The Braves ended the weekend with a needed win If you buy something from an SB Nation link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement The Braves entered Sunday with the chance of not only being swept by the dodgers for the second time this season, but also going five games below .500 this season. Fortunately, Austin Riley blasted two homers while both Bryce Elder and the bullpen were mostly excellent The Braves still find themselves in a less than ideal situation to start the season but they have another stretch ahead of them where they can make up some ground the rest of the offense will once again rise to the occasion to get some wins The Braves signed Austin Cox, formerly of the Royals. Many teams in the Braves farm system did not have the best of weekends. The Rangers placed Leody Taveras on outright waivers a senior at Union Catholic who has won three national titles in the hurdles (two indoors/one outdoors) came within .02 of breaking the state's automatic time record when she won the 100 hurdles in 13.35 That equals Cox's personal best that she ran at the Arcadia Invit which is the second fastest automatic time in NJ history behind the 13.34 that the legendary Sydney McLaughlin of Union Catholic ran in 2014 Dawn Bowles of Neptune ran 13.1 when she finished first at the Golden West Invitational in 1988 James holds the overall state wind-legal record in the 100 of 10.28 that he ran to finish first for Burlington City at the Meet of Champions last June but that could also go down this season as Cramer has that record squarely in his crosshairs The University of Tennessee-bound Cramer ran a wind-legal 10.35 in the trials on Saturday 2 all-time performance that he ran to finish first at the Brooks PR Invitational last June in Renton a former teammate of Jennings at Timber Creek who burned an 11.23 to finish first at the State Group 3 Championships last spring The other big NJ highlight that came out of the Puma meet was the No. 8 all-time 46.60 that Clayton senior Alexander Osayemi ran in the boys 400 Good Cheer remained perfect and gave Louisville trainer Brad Cox another Kentucky Oaks victory Ridden by Luis Saez, Good Cheer raced mid-pack early, made a five-wide move on the final turn and rumbled down the stretch to win the $1.5 million, Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks by 2 1/4 lengths on an overcast Friday afternoon in front of 100,910 at Churchill Downs Good Cheer remained undefeated in seven career races “I’m not certain what her ceiling is,” Cox said with Good Cheer joining Monomoy Girl (2018) and Shedaresthedevil (2020) Cox wasn't ready to proclaim Good Cheer the best of the three but likes what he's seen so far “The word I keep going back to is her level of class," Cox said … She just continues to bring it every week in her workouts and her races It was a good day for Louisville trainers, as Cox — a 1998 Iroquois High School graduate — and Drexel Hill — trained by 2000 St. Xavier product Whit Beckman — finished 1-2 Drexel Hill had a slow start and was last after a half-mile before rallying to place at 32-1 odds 1 1/4 lengths ahead of third-place Bless the Broken “She just took a minute to get her stride together," Beckman said she was moving real easily and got a good trip from then on.” The trainer then looked to the winner's circle where Cox was celebrating Good Cheer's win “I’d rather be standing over there," Beckman said with a smile Post time was delayed about 10 minutes because of an afternoon thunderstorm that left the track in "wet fast" condition La Cara and jockey Dylan Davis set the early fractions of 22.58 seconds for the quarter-mile 46.78 seconds for the half-mile and 1:11.36 for three-quarters before fading Saez settled Good Cheer in the middle of the pack along the backstretch before moving on the final turn who has ridden Good Cheer in each of her past six starts said he wasn't concerned about having to go wide it doesn’t matter what move you make," said Saez who won his second Kentucky Oaks after leading Secret Oath to victory in 2022 Good Cheer earned $855,600 for the win and boosted her career earnings to $1,733,230 for owner Godolphin Her perfect record includes four victories at Churchill Downs "Brad and his team have done an outstanding job with her," Godolphin representative Michael Banahan said "We know how difficult it is to keep a horse And to be able to do that and win at the top level like this was fantastic." More Kentucky Oaks: Full payouts for the race Jason Frakes: 502-582-4046; jfrakes@courier-journal.com it was Star Wars day so we discuss Star Wars The podcast is back and since we recorded this episode on May the 4th we had to discuss a little Star Wars at the top We discussed our favorite movies and Ryan even provides us with his favorite scene throughout all the series we discuss the beginning of our offseason homework series We start with the current freshman and this time it is CJ Cox’s turn to stand before the class Ryan was the one who wrote the article on the site about CJ so it only seemed right that I let him largely lead the discussion on this one There’s little doubt in my mind that Cox will be a huge piece of Purdue’s future and his nearly 40% three point shooting from his freshman season will be relied on next year as Purdue looks to return to the Final Four By Lilly KershStaff Writer after neither candidate gained more than 50% of the votes Cox, a realtor and former council member, has received 47% of votes, according to unofficial results of the May 3 election posted on Collin County’s website a pastor and former Republican state representative Estate attorney Taylor Willingham received 7% and eye surgeon Matt Rostami received 6% Breaking NewsGet the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond GoogleFacebookBy signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy “We appreciate [voters’] support and look forward to working with those supporters during this runoff,” Cox said late Saturday The chairman of McKinney’s planning and zoning commission said his “hands-on” experience in local government sets him apart from his opponent Sanford thanked residents for voting and said he plans to “build a bridge” between residents and local government if elected “We‘re at a time of a lot of separation between the people and their city hall,” he said “This is an opportunity for them to get reconnected.” Around 19,000 votes were counted in the mayoral race The four candidates were vying to replace Mayor George Fuller who is term-limited after leading the fast-growing Collin County seat for eight years Voters also cast ballots for three seats in council races Geré Feltus is leading in her race to keep her seat and the city’s race for a new at-large council member will likely go to a runoff Feltus is leading challenger Tammy Warren for the District 3 council seat according to unofficial results posted by the county In the at-large seat’s race, Ernest Lynch is leading four other candidates to replace councilmember Charlie Philips followed by business owner Jim Garrison with 20% nonprofit leader Derrick Tarver with 18% and psychiatrist Taha Ansari with 14% Lynch and Garrison will face each other in a runoff ran for reelection unopposed and will now begin his second and final term Collin County saw an 11% voter turnout of its 740,500 registered voters Around 67% of votes were cast early and a third on Election Day She graduated in 2024 from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism and was born and raised in Atlanta Rochester School District Superintendent Dan W. Cox who has been on paid administrative leave since Jan The Rochester Board of Education and Cox made the joint announcement following a special school board meeting April 30 More: The Rochester schools superintendent is on leave. Letter critical of district may provide details Cox was the subject of an investigation by the Monticello, Illinois-based law firm Miller, Tracy, Braun, Funk & Miller, Ltd. though district officials haven't divulged why it was conducted or presented any of its findings The departure was "a mutual agreement on amicable terms acknowledging the complexities of education leadership today and the shared accomplishments achieved during his service Cox wish one another success in the future." Cox's salary is $201,500 annually, according to the district website Last fall, a letter to the editor in the Rochester Times from the district's former director of business services and treasurer raised issues about questionable business trips budget overspending to the tune of $500,000 and other issues Jon Hansen, a spokesperson for the school district, refuted some of McDermott's claims maintained that details in the letter might have led directly to Cox's leave or prompted other questions about him More: Accessing local journalism is even easier with the State Journal-Register app the district's Director of Educational Services Cox was hired at Rochester for the 2020-21 academic year Cox was superintendent of the Staunton Community Unit School District from 2015 to 2020 he was superintendent of Jasper County Community Unit School District in Newton for five years Contact Steven Spearie: 217-622-1788; sspearie@sj-r.com; X A Texas beef burger promotion at the Cinder Bar’s restaurant in Clarksboro provided in part by ex-Philadelphia Eagle Fletcher Cox The restaurant put aside $3 from every 91 Smash Burger it sold to give to the Gloucester County K-9 Association from December 2024 through February The check cut for the nonprofit association came to more than $10,000 said the idea was cooked up between Cox and Cinder Bar owner Bob Ciconte and Cox as the “91” in the burger's name represents Cox’s jersey number in the 12 years he played defensive tackle More: South Jersey real estate: Why — and where — the markets are heating up at this end of NJ is such a regular patron at the local Cinder Bar that he has his own booth He stood in as a bartender one night in February as part of the promotion “I think this is one of those things that just organically happened to be perfectly honest with you,” Basta said this week “This is one of the first collaborations of its kind for us at least with a name like `Fletcher Cox’ behind it Basta said Cox insisted that the $3-per-burger proceeds all went to the Gloucester County K-9 Association More than 3,400 orders for these burgers were sold More: A change is coming to the Repauno port redevelopment in Gibbstown. What to know. These burgers were topped with Vermont cheddar it was something I got every time I went with my wife.” Ciconte’s Restaurant Group has operated for nearly 40 years in South Jersey Landmark Americana and Ciconte’s Catering & Events Philly native transplanted to South Jersey 36 years ago keeping an eye now on government in South Jersey He is a former editor and current senior staff writer for The Daily Journal in Vineland Support local journalism with a subscription This afternoon, the Atlanta Braves announced the signing of pitcher Austin Cox to a MLB deal and optioned him to Triple-A Gwinnett The #Braves today signed LHP Austin Cox to a major league contract and optioned him to Triple-A Gwinnett Cox, 28, is a Macon, Ga. native and was a 5th round draft choice by the Kansas City Royals in 2018 The left-hander made his major league debut in 2023 pitching in 24 games before suffering a knee injury while covering first base in early September he collected 0.5 fWAR while striking out 22.1-percent of the batters he faced He’s had a high walk-rate through out his minor league career - walking almost 15-percent of batters last year and nearly 11-percent this year the Braves obviously saw something they liked in the 6’ 4” pitcher Cox had pitched in 11 games with Kansas City’s Triple-A team this season The team had an open spot on its 40-man roster so no corresponding move was needed John and Judy Gay Library welcomed voters to cast their ballot during early voting and on election day Shelbie joined Community Impact in August 2022 and has been the editor of the McKinney edition since July 2023 Shelbie served as a business news fellow for the Dallas Morning News She graduated with a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University in May 2022 Cox Marine announced a series of changes to its commercial operations and sales leadership structure Cox Marine announced a series of changes to its commercial operations and sales leadership structure.  Cox Marine has made strides to deliver its first product to market—the 300 V8 Cox Marine is also progressing through the final validation stages for the market-disrupting 350 V8.  Cox Marine has completed its transition to a business-to-business (B2B) sales model with a defined growth strategy and capable strategic distribution partners As the company moves its focus from research and development to high-volume manufacturing in a challenging its commercial strategy is refined to maximize market penetration and achieve sustainable growth enabling it to drive growth in target markets and deliver world-class outboards for safer and cleaner seas To spearhead this refined commercial sales strategy Cox Marine announced the appointment of Hugh Hudleston as Business Development Director this new role focuses on cultivating and securing substantial government and commercial contracts within strategically beneficial regions for the organization.  Hugh has been with the organization since August 2020 having joined as Head of Sales and held a series of senior positions within the sales function since he served as Regional Director for the Americas for the last eighteen months working to introduce Cox Marine’s V8 diesel outboards to key commercial and government operators.  With the transition to a full business-to-business (B2B) sales model Cox Marine also announced the departure of Gary Heath Cox Marine’s Global Aftersales Director and Regional Director for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.  Cox Marine and its partners thank Ian and Gary for their valuable contributions and dedication to the brand They wish them the best in their respective future endeavors.  Reflecting the company’s strategic changes and the increased confidence and capability of its distribution network their responsibilities will be shared amongst Cox Marine’s Business Development and Commercial Operations teams as well as the proactive sales teams of our distribution partners will have full responsibility for the global 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Design This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The former leader of the Ankeny Area Chamber of Commerce has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the theft of more than $250,000 from the organization entered the plea April 30 in Polk County court to four felony charges: theft The plea spared Cox from four other charges but is an admission she used a chamber-issued credit card for personal expenses and tried to cover it up She was dismissed from the chamber in November following an internal audit that found financial irregularities Ankeny police said a board member contacted them Nov The chamber announced Cox's hiring in December 2021 Cox also transferred money from a chamber bank account she had created to her personal bank account to cover up the theft and altered transactions on credit card statements to try to make the transactions appear to be normal expenses Second-degree fraudulent practice carries a potential sentence of up to five years in prison The other felony charges each carry potential sentences of up to 10 years in prison All the charges also can include up to more than $10,000 in fines She must also pay restitution on all eight counts Phillip Sitter covers the suburbs for the Des Moines Register. Phillip can be reached via email at psitter@gannett.com or on X at @pslifeisabeauty. Find out more about him online through the Register's staff directory Good Cheer won Friday’s 151st running of the Oaks by 2 1/4 lengths making it the third time in the last seven years that Cox has been the winning trainer The Louisville native won in 2018 with Monomoy Girl and 2020 with Shedaresthedevil But none were quite as dominant as Good Cheer, who is now undefeated in seven starts including a perfect 4-for-4 mark at Churchill Downs "I'm not sure what her ceiling is," Cox said as she broke wide coming off the second turn and simply outraced the pack extending a length-and-a-half lead to win comfortably All of a sudden, it’s fair to ask, can Cox duplicate Kenny McPeek this year McPeek became the first trainer since 1952 to sweep the Oaks and the Kentucky Derby in the same year If it feels like there are similarities between the two Both had fillies that were the better horse He pulled it off with a near-perfect trip from the No Cox’s horse, Final Gambit At 30-1 odds, he’s even more of a long shot than Mystik Dan (18-1) was last year. Cox is still looking for a chance to cross the finish line first. His Derby victory in 2021 with Mandaloun was only awarded after Medina Spirit failed a drug test and was disqualified there’s currently plenty Good Cheer in Cox’s barn She’s a superstar in the making having accepted and met every challenge to date Challenge might not even be the right word as Good Cheer has won all of her races by a combined 44 3/4 lengths Cox acknowledged there were some skeptics of her ability to win the Oaks because of her speed figures that didn't suggest there would be any separation That other fillies in the field could run just as fast as her "The one thing I kept going back with her was she beat some really good fillies in Quietside here in the fall and some others," Cox said And that's probably the most impressive thing Friday’s running of the Kentucky Oaks wasn’t about speed figures or best trips It came down to which filly could handle all of the intangibles that no trainer or jockey could plan for in the days leading up to the race as could they be prepared for running on a sloppy track But no one imagined the severe weather delay that hit Churchill Downs around the ninth race at 4 p.m The video monitors throughout the stands and stationed near concessions all posted an ominous warning reiterated by a voice over the public announcement system telling them to seek shelter It sent well-dressed spectators in their pink-clad outfits to the exits in droves like the outcome was decided in the final minutes of a basketball game it only led to about a 10-minute delay for the Oaks' post at 6:03 p.m That wasn't enough time to damper Good Cheer's run Cox said while the track was wetter than he thought during the walk over to the paddock Good Cheer won an allowance race over a sloppy track at Churchill Downs by 17 lengths in September "She'd handled track and performed very well on our off track here last September so we were confident that she could handle it," Cox said Good Cheer solidified her place in history Cox will see if Final Gambit can do the same Reach sports columnist C.L. Brown at clbrown1@gannett.com, follow him on X at @CLBrownHoops and subscribe to his newsletter at profile.courier-journal.com/newsletters/cl-browns-latest to make sure you never miss one of his columns. LAWRENCE CO. – Lawrence County Highway Department Superintendent Brian Sowder has announced that the road work previously scheduled for Davey Cox Road has been postponed until tomorrow. In a brief update, Sowder indicated that the delay is due to weather conditions, stating that the work will proceed tomorrow “as long as the rain stops.” Motorists who may have been anticipating roadwork on Davey Cox Road today should be aware of this schedule change. Further updates regarding the project’s commencement will likely be provided tomorrow. 1340 AM WBIW, Bedford’s Place To Talk. Serving Lawrence and surrounding counties since 1948! © Ad-Venture Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. WBIW.com and Listen Live Powered by HPC Embed on your websiteClose×Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site<iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/05/02/birthright-citizenship-trump-history-heather-cox-richardson"></iframe> EmailPresident Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)President Trump believes that if you're born in the United States Historian Heather Cox Richardson says Trump is willfully misinterpreting American history and the Constitution Heather Cox Richardson, historian. She writes the newsletter "Letters from an American." Author of "Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America." MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Heather Cox Richardson is with us in the studio today. She's author of Letters from An American, the hugely popular newsletter on Substack. She's also the author of many books, including her latest, which is Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. She's also a professor of history at Boston College. Professor Richardson, welcome back to On Point. HEATHER COX RICHARDSON: It's always a pleasure. CHAKRABARTI: Okay, I'm gonna start with something a little bit different today since you are in the studio here with me. I've got a little bit of a highlighted text here on my screen. I'm gonna turn the screen towards you. Can you just read that sentence? RICHARDSON: [READING] All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. CHAKRABARTI: So what's that? What is that? RICHARDSON: That is the beginning of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified 1868. CHAKRABARTI: I've been told it's your favorite amendment. RICHARDSON: It is. Everybody has a favorite amendment that happens to be mine. CHAKRABARTI: So this is the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment which really means something significant. Is there any way, any possible way you think, to interpret that language other than, you're born here, you're a citizen here? RICHARDSON: No. There really isn't. And I could tell you how people get around that by trying to create a different pathway around it. But in order really to understand what the primarily Republicans in Congress were doing in 1866 when they first began to explore the question of how do you decide who's a citizen in this new post-Civil War period, you really have to look at the Civil Rights Act of 1866. And what's interesting about that is when they talked about the Civil Rights Act of 1866, I'm sorry, the Civil Rights Bill, because it doesn't become a law, they are very aware that it's not just Black Americans who have faced discriminatory legislation in Massachusetts, for example, the Irish did in California, indigenous Americans and Chinese immigrants and Mexican immigrants, all face discriminatory legislation. So they write this 1866 bill in which they explicitly say all races, everybody who is here, becomes a citizen. And then Andrew Johnson, who succeeds Abraham Lincoln, vetoes that bill, and one of the reasons he vetoes it, and he talks about this, is that he says, you cannot, and I'm paraphrasing, you cannot mean that you intend to include Chinese people. And he's very concerned about gypsies. That's something else he puts in there, that you can include all these people as citizens of the United States. Plus, if you really mean to do that, why do you have to add that to the Constitution? Because you are arguing that the Constitution already says it under, you know, this other thing we can talk about. So when they write the 14th, they explicitly take that into consideration and say, yeah, they just are citizens under the Constitution. And yes, obviously that means everybody. CHAKRABARTI: Okay. We're going to go into that deep history in detail with you, but the reason why I wanted to have you here with us today is that obviously, concurrently, there are, as you saying, several people in the Republican party, including the president of the United States who actually disagree with you. DONALD TRUMP: We are the only country in the world that does this with birthright, and it's just absolutely ridiculous. But, we'll see. We think it, we have very good grounds. Certain people have wanted to do this for decades. CHAKRABARTI: So this is ending birthright citizenship, and that is from President Trump's first day in office this time around, January 20th of this year, when one of the first things he did was sign an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Let me give a little bit more background to listeners here, professor, if I can. This obviously wasn't a surprise because he had been repeatedly saying during the 2024 campaign that he would sign such an order. Here's an example. TRUMP: current policy is based on a historical myth and a willful misinterpretation of the law by the open borders advocates. There aren't that many of them around. It's amazing. Who wants this? Who wants to have prisoners coming into our country? Who wants to have people who are very sick coming into our country? People from mental institutions coming into our country? And come they will. They're coming by the thousands, by the tens of thousands. As part of my plan to secure the border on day one of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order, making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship. CHAKRABARTI: So we're playing these segments of President Trump speaking in their entirety or at least long chunks of it in order for people to hear fairly what he said. And also, it's quite revealing to me how he clearly goes off script sometimes, and you can hear him jump back on script. RICHARDSON: But that's actually really significant and one of the things that we don't obviously have to talk about this today. He's not at full mental acuity, and this is a huge problem that we're not dealing with this because we're trying, as you say, to change the very foundations of what it means to be an American, according to the words of somebody who, just three nights ago, from when you and I are recording, he didn't know what the Declaration of Independence was, so this is somewhat, not even somewhat, this is problematic. So let's say the business at hand, but I feel like that's this whole red, a factory of red flags that we are not adequately addressing in this country. CHAKRABARTI: Exactly. And when a president of the United States calls something that is written in the constitution, a historical myth, we have to pause and focus on things like that. Which is what we're gonna do here. But the other reason, and you wrote about this in your Substack, that I wanted to provide this context. Has to do with the actions that the Trump administration is currently taking, that are having an impact on not just U.S. citizens naturalized, but U.S. born citizens, right? Because they have been removing some of them from the country, who again, under the 14th Amendment, have the right to due process. They're, first of all, birthright citizens, and they have the right to due process on U.S. soil. So here's a little news coverage this week from MSNBC on the deportation of two Honduran women. And their U.S. born citizen children from Louisiana. MSNBC NEWS: The Trump administration put three children, and the children are United States citizens, and that's an important point here on deportation flights with their mothers late last week, one of them is a 4-year-old boy with stage four cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family lawyer said. CHAKRABARTI: So when asked by reporters why the Trump administration is deporting U.S.-born citizens, here is what White House borders czar, Tom Homan said. TOM HOMAN: I'd said from day one that if you enter this country legally, it's a crime. If you choose to have a U.S. citizen child knowing you're in this country legally, you put yourself in that position, you put your family in that position. What we did is remove children with their mothers who requested the children to depart with them. They weren't deported. We don't import U.S. citizens. The parents made that decision, not the United States government. CHAKRABARTI: Okay, so let's dig into that for a little bit here. The Trump administration, as you just heard, asserts that the women who were unauthorized immigrants, were given the choice to take their children with them and that they chose to do, in fact, here's Secretary of State Marco Rubio on NBC News. MARCO RUBIO: Three U.S. citizens, ages four, seven, and two were not deported. Their mothers who were legally in this country were deported. The children went with their mothers; those children are U.S. citizens. They can come back into the United States if their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mother, who was their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers. CHAKRABARTI: So Secretary Rubio there mentioned the father, of these fathers, of these children is specifically one of them. Okay, so just a few days ago, Gracie Willis, who's an attorney representing one of those U.S. born children. Says that the Trump administration has been completely misleading on this. She told MSNBC's, José Díaz-Balart that DHS officers did not give the child's father the chance to stop that child from being removed from the country. GRACIE WILLIS: There was a one-minute phone call. There was, it was a two-minute phone call. There was one minute of those two minutes where the father and mother were able to speak and they were asserting the child's U.S. citizenship on speaker phone with the ICE officer who was in the room with the mother. And the ICE officer said, oh yeah, we don't know if she's gonna be deported yet. And as soon as the father started providing the phone number for an attorney, the ICE officer hung up the phone. That was the last time they spoke to each other until the mother landed in Honduras. DIAZ-BALART: So the government says the mother wrote a letter asking that her child, U.S.-born child, go with her to Honduras. WILLIS: The letter itself, ICE has been misrepresenting what's in this letter. The letter, as was just stated, says, my child will come with me. I will bring my child. It's not a statement of desire. It's not as a statement of what the mother hoped or wanted to happen, and in fact, what we now know is the mother was told, your child will be deported with you and was told to write this letter that said, my child will come with me. She was never provided an opportunity to make a different choice. CHAKRABARTI: Again, that's Gracie Willis on MSNBC. Professor Richardson, you wrote about this. And why did you feel like this was an important place to start, one of your more recent Letters to An American? RICHARDSON: The question of who is a U.S. citizen is not just about the individuals involved. It's a question of what we want for our country and how we treat the people in it. That is what the government considers is important for US citizens. So this moment is, I think, a struggle over the very nature of the United States, not simply over whether a 4-year-old with stage four cancer is going to have access to medicine, which itself is a headline, but what we consider the meaning of America. And that's a really big question. And it's not new. We've been grappling with this really since at least 1790, when we had the first Naturalization Act deciding who could be welcome in America. And much of our domestic politics has always centered around who gets to be a member of American society and who doesn't. And what the U.S. government is going to do to support those who we consider to be central to who we are and what it's going to do for those it does not consider central. And so I think in this moment, you're watching a political movement, trying to change the nature of America, in part by terrorizing both undocumented residents of the United States, but also the children, their children, so U.S. citizens. And that's, we've not been here before and that's a really important moment. CHAKRABARTI: We've not been here before, even though this has been a battle to expand the meaning of who belongs under the category of We, The People since 1790. As you said. RICHARDSON: There's a really important distinction between who can become a naturalized citizen, who can come in and be and go through the process of naturalization. And we put in the United States, there was a law in 1790, the first naturalization law that I'd love to get into more. Because it has some really important distinctions in it that are not going to hold. And it's one of the things that the 14th Amendment is going to try to address. But that's different than who is a citizen when they are born here. And that's actually in the Constitution and they don't deal with it explicitly. Because in part, they're working so much from the common law that they're taking from England that does talk about a natural born citizen, but also in part, because you gotta remember in the period in which they're writing the constitution, there's lots of different people moving around and coming and going and who belongs to whom And we've only got originally the 13 colonies and so on and so forth. CHAKRABARTI: Professor Richardson, one of the reasons why I enjoy talking to you so much is we can very clearly connect things that are happening in this moment, literally second by second, to America's long and complex history. And I wanted to ask you something about what we heard Secretary Rubio say a little bit earlier. Because he says, he asserts, yes, these, the children who have been removed from the country who are U.S. born citizens, he doesn't question their citizenship. He doesn't also question the fact that they were removed from the country, but he says, Hey, since they're U.S. citizens, they can come back. RICHARDSON: So I said before, there's a distinction between people who can be naturalized. And people who are natural born citizens, that are born either in this country or under certain conditions elsewhere. And this is something that Americans dealt with immediately after the Civil War. Because again, there's a lot of people coming and going in this period. And as early as 1889, the U.S. government recognized that once somebody had become, was born here and was a citizen here, that the government, that is the country, had an interest in making sure that citizen had the best opportunities and was well protected. So there's actually a case in 1889 where a woman and her husband have come from Scotland with a child who was born in Scotland, but they have a baby here who is a natural born citizen. And they leave and go back to Scotland. And then the man abandons the woman and she tries, she thinks he's in America. So she comes back, and she comes back at a time after 1882 when we don't only get the Chinese Exclusion Act. We also get a different act about three months later that governs the people who come in through New York. And that says, if you're a pauper, you can't come to America. And just as a sideline here, I wanna be clear, this is not my research. This is a fabulous immigration historian out of University of California, Berkeley named Hidetaka Hirota, who writes about this. And she comes back to America to try and find her errant husband and they stop her in New York, and they say, you can't come in because you're destitute. But then the guy realizes that there's a U.S. citizen there. And so he writes to his superiors with the timer and the treasury department. That's what oversees. Immigration in that period. And he says, what am I gonna do? And the people at the Treasury department look at this and they say, our interest is in making sure that American citizens are well cared for, that are as healthy as they can be. So the mother and her other child who are, not otherwise eligible to come into the United States, should come in with that small child, so that the small child, the citizen, is surrounded by the loving parent. And that's not the only time that happens, it happens again a few years later. So there's, like I say, this is about defining America. If you have U.S. citizens in this period, in the late 19th century. You want, the government wants them to be well cared for, to grow up to be good American citizens. It's one of the impulses of the progressive era. We are doing the opposite now, saying, we don't care if you're a U.S. citizen. We're gonna toss you out. We're gonna break up your family. We're gonna send you to a place where we're not sure how you're gonna be treated. Because we in the United States of America don't really care about citizenship. We care about a certain kind of belonging to a certain kind of idea of America. CHAKRABARTI: This is so interesting. We can only speculate, given what you said, and that historical precedent, we can only speculate what would happen or what will happen if U.S. based family members of those children do want to bring them back. In an ideal circumstance, they would be allowed back. But as you said, this is really a question of defining America and I think the Trump administration has been quite clear on what definition they think America is. So we would have to see if those kids would actually be allowed back easily as the Secretary of State asserts. RICHARDSON: Well, but without their mothers. RICHARDSON: What you gonna do? You're gonna take a three-year-old or this other one-year-old U.S. citizen whose mother was sent back to her country of origin. You've traumatized an American citizen. And that's gonna matter as that child grows up, CHAKRABARTI: I guess that's the point. Sorry, I missed the original point of the story about the Irish woman that she was not allowed in, but was eventually allowed in because of her U.S. citizen child. RICHARDSON: Because the child, the U.S. government believed it needed to protect the wellbeing of a U.S. citizen. And if that meant bringing in the mother, so be it. CHAKRABARTI: Okay, so let's go back then, because it's interesting when we talk about the Constitution, there's an automatic sort of unconscious response thinking what the framers of the Constitution wanted. But the 14th Amendment came well after the original framing of the Constitution. Just, again, you said this at the top of the show, but I want to be clear, I understand it correctly, that why was the need for the specific language of U.S. born people are automatically given citizenship. RICHARDSON: So the 14th comes from a very different place than the original Constitution, and yet it's worth reminding people that it is as much a part of the Constitution as the original part, which is something sometimes originalists don't pay a lot of attention to. The 14th Amendment comes out of the fact that the state laws in the American South after the Civil War continued to discriminate against Black Americans and they had tried some ways to address that the Republican Congress had tried some ways to address that, and they had not been successful. So they write the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. And one of the things that they have to do is to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857. And the Dred Scott decision, which is the Supreme Court decision of that year, said that Black Americans could not be citizens. And so they had to figure out how to address that, so that Black Americans in the American South would in fact be considered citizens. And so they started, as I say, in the civil rights bill of '66, to say, all races, whatever. CHAKRABARTI: Let's talk about, can we just talk about Dred Scott for a second? CHAKRABARTI: Because you know it so well that you just speed through it, but it is one of the most consequential, I'd say, Supreme Court decisions in this country's history. And 1857. So pre-Civil War. Can you tell us a story about Dred Scott and why that case ended up the way that it did? RICHARDSON: Dred Scott was an attempt of the Supreme Court to decide the conflict between the Northern Free Labor states and the southern states that supported human enslavement by creating a new standard. And that idea, I think, is important here. Because it's not just about Dred Scott's citizenship, and there were many ways that they could have answered that question that did not create the ruckus that it did. But this was an attempt of the elite enslavers to take over the U.S. government. And again, it was not just a question of Dred Scott and his family, which is quite an interesting history. It was a question of what was America going to become? Were people going to have rights or were they not going to have rights? And this is one of the things that spurs the fledgling Republican party, not just the rights of Black Americans, but also as I say, the Irish and the Chinese. CHAKRABARTI: What was the consequence or outcome of the Dred Scott Case? RICHARDSON: It completely destroyed faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, at least for close to a generation, because it was pretty clearly a political decision. And we now know that James Buchanan, who was about, the decision comes down about a week after he's inaugurated. Which is why it's 57 and not 56. Many people make the mistake of thinking it's 56, it's actually 57, that he was in on it and that this was political. It was not at all an attempt to preserve the ideas of the Constitution, where in fact, you can see in the 14th, the way they write that 14th, most Americans thought that, at least the ones who were not in part of the slave power, thought that the Constitution itself guaranteed birthright citizenship. Because it's a funny place. It's in the section under who can become a President, and they talk about a natural born citizen in that. And as I say, they pick that up in the 14th and say, yeah, we're going to put into law, into Constitution that if you're born here, we don't care where you come from or anything else if you're born here. You're a U.S. citizen, and that's different, as I say, from who can come in from outside. And that's a distinction that actually is not gonna matter quite a bit. CHAKRABARTI: You quoted a part of the Dred Scott decision in your newsletter, and I just wanna read it because it is so jarring. The Supreme Court ruled that people of African descent, quote, and this is from the decision: "Are not included, and were not intended to be included under the word citizens in the Constitution and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States." RICHARDSON: Yeah, that's Roger Taney the Chief Justice at the time. Again, which is, I'm not a lawyer, I'm a historian, but, if that were the case, we would not have needed the Naturalization Act of 1790, which does in fact make a distinction between, distinguished between the immigrants coming into the United States and explicitly says that you must be free and white. CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So getting back to the specific language of the 14th Amendment, I had you read the -- CHAKRABARTI: It is the one that I think most people just generally recognize as equal protection under the law, which is a found, I will say, foundational. Even though it came a century after the founding of the country, it's a foundational concept of, as you said, what it means to be American and what this country stands for, but the Trump administration and its supporters are quibbling over a clause in that first sentence. Okay, so here's the sentence again. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, born or naturalized in the United States, and here's the clause, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. So with that subject to the jurisdiction thereof in mind, just listen to this for a second. Professor Richardson, this is Charles J. Cooper, chairman and founding partner of Cooper & Kirk the law firm. And he testified at the House Judiciary Committee in February, on February 25th, that President Trump's interpretation of birthright citizenship is correct, that essentially Trump doesn't believe there's any such thing. And the reason rests on those words. Subject to the jurisdiction thereof. So here's Cooper. COOPER: Why did its framers choose such a strange way to say that? Why didn't they just say subject to the laws of the United States? Doing so would've been quite natural given that this straightforward, unambiguous phrase is used in both Article III and Article VI. The clause also ensures that birthright citizenship makes newborns citizens of both the United States. And of the states wherein they reside, that is where they live, their home. This word standing alone implies a lawful permanent residence, and it plainly excludes tourists and other lawful visitors, as well as illegal aliens who are prohibited by law from residing in a state. CHAKRABARTI: Okay, that is so fascinating. I understand you're not a lawyer, but you hear what he's doing there, that if you are not a resident of a state. If you're, let's say, if you are a legal tourist coming in from Saudi Arabia, let's say, this happens, and doing birth tourism and coming, this happens. We're based in Boston. This happens here in Boston. Coming in, staying for six months, having your child flying back with a private nurse to Saudi Arabia, therefore, you're not really a resident here, so your child shouldn't be a citizen. How do you, what do you think about that? RICHARDSON: So remember when the framers wrote the constitution, nobody was engaging in any kind of, let's hop around the world in a jet. So it's a little hard. You certainly could stop that sort of travel if you wanted to now, because you're operating on a very different kind of issue of transportation and technology, but that's to me a side issue. Let's start with under the jurisdiction thereof. And why did they say that? Or do we want to say that we are a country based, essentially, in white supremacy? CHAKRABARTI: It's interesting because attorney Charles Cooper, who we just heard also pointed to, another case which you wrote about, as well. This is the case of Wong Kim Ark. CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So this is how Cooper described his belief of the importance of the Wong Kim Ark case, which was late 19th century again. COOPER: The Supreme Court's 1898 decision in Wong Kim Ark. Had nothing to do with the children of illegal aliens or aliens lawfully but temporarily admitted to the country. The court carefully framed the issue before it twice in verbatim terms as involving, quote, A child born in the United States of parents of Chinese descent who have a permanent domicile and resident in the United States. CHAKRABARTI: So Professor Wong Kim Ark was born in, as you note, 1873 in the United States. He was the child of Chinese parents. Tell us about this case. RICHARDSON: Who could not become citizens at the time. RICHARDSON: That's right. Yeah, that's right. And the, again, this is one of the things that's very frustrating in this moment in American history is that we don't get the concept of an undocumented or a person here illegally until really quite late in the 20th century. We get this, people come and go. And there are certainly requirements for being able to come into the United States after 1882, either racial components through the Chinese Exclusion Act, or as I say, you have to have enough money that you can support yourself by a later law of 1882. But the militarization of our border is really quite late. And that idea that somehow in 1898 when the Supreme Court decided Wong Kim Ark, that they had made a distinction between people here legally and people here illegally is just completely ahistorical, it wasn't a thing. That you could make a distinction at that point, because nobody saw that as being part of what it meant to be an American. CHAKRABARTI: Professor Richardson, I just do want to dig in a little bit more into the case of Wong Kim Ark, because as you note in your letters, he's a U.S. born citizen around what, late, mid, early to mid 1870s. CHAKRABARTI: Of Chinese parents. He actually did return to China in 1889 when his parents went back. That's right. They repatriate. The whole family goes back. He marries and then he comes back to the U.S. and does not have a problem. Then he goes back to see his newborn son and to see his wife again. And when he tries to come back in, then they stop him and say, you are not a citizen. And he says, yes, I am. And there've been a number of cases, by the way, he wasn't the only one who sued over this, but he's the case that goes to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court looks at the case in this moment, which I have to add, is a moment of extraordinary hysteria against Chinese immigrants to the United States. And they say that, listen, even if you don't like Chinese immigrants at this point, you cannot overrule the Constitution, which says he is a citizen. So Wong Kim Ark became that gold standard of this is, we are going to embrace birthright citizenship going forward. And that stood ever since. Again, very different than who can come in from another country. But who is here? RICHARDSON: Which is interesting because as I say, this is a period when you have a real push among some people in the American West to get rid of the 14th Amendment because they don't like the idea of Chinese immigrants being treated equally to white Americans in the West. They don't care very much about Black Americans in the West in this period, but they're tied in knots over Asians. And this is not just about Black citizenship. It's also about citizenship for anybody coming in. CHAKRABARTI: Do you know what's interesting to me? How you mentioned when we were talking about the current objections to under the jurisdiction thereof in the 14th Amendment, we heard Charles Cooper a little bit, in the Wong Kim Ark decision. 1898. Again, there's another section in which the majority decision takes this on, like just square on. When he says, the real object of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution in the qualifying words of all persons born in the United States subject to the jurisdiction thereof would appear to have been to exclude. That's what he's saying. It looks like it does, but it does not, in fact, it says it has already been shown by the law of England and by our own law. From the time of the first settlement of the English colonies in America, there have been recognized exemptions, exceptions to the fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within this country. But then he says those principles, those exceptions rest were long ago distinctly stated by this court. And he's saying only diplomatic exemptions actually. No others. And sorry. I like, I hashed my way through that, but this seems to have been resolved by the courts 130 years ago. RICHARDSON: It was, but let's think about, let's take it from the other direction. And that's that why are we talking about this again, the way we are? And it's worth remembering that Trump's MAGA Republicans are a political project. Not thinking this sort of about the principles of citizenship, which are important. That's really, thinking about what it means to be an American and what the government should do for Americans and that Americans should do for the government and so on. Those are vital questions at every moment, but in this moment, we've had the rise in the United States of this radical right movement, and much of its power has come from fear of the other, from fear of the immigrants coming in. And this is, of course, a pattern that Viktor Orbán used in Hungary to seize power and to destroy democracy there. But in the United States, especially after COVID, we did have an extraordinary swell of people coming from over the southern border, in part because the United States economy was the strongest in the world. And they continue to be fuel for that political movement because anti-immigrant sentiment has always been present in the United States. And it's just something that in this moment, this particular president is really doubling down on in order to solidify his base at a time when you know his numbers are actually not terribly strong. And one of the big things he had going for him was that when he talked about being harsh against immigrants, that really goosed his base. It's actually not doing that any longer, but he's still doubling down on it. Because it's not clear he is going to be able to regain any ground on the economy, and he's underwater on every single other issue. CHAKRABARTI: I hope you don't mind me asking a question that removes us from the realm of history and just more your view on no, this is what you write about, the uniqueness of the American project. Because I think one thing that the Trump administration and Trump supporters and himself and he himself points to is that this idea of birthright citizenship is actually not the norm globally. That you could probably, and correct me if I'm wrong, probably point to more places where you can be born in a country, but you still have to go through a long process in order to be a citizen thereof. And so therefore, they're saying we should have that here too, so that we have the quote-unquote right kinds of citizens. RICHARDSON: One of the things that frustrates me so in this moment is the people who claim to be defending America are destroying it. And destroying its uniqueness and its greatness. I will say that. America has always been different, and I'm not to say, I'm not saying that we have never made mistakes. Of course we have, sometimes, more often than not, but we were a country where you could come from anywhere and become an American. And somebody made the point recently that I think it's 46% of the people who are running the Fortune 500 companies I think it is, are either immigrants or children of immigrants, but they're American. CHAKRABARTI: And the way this trying to reshape the idea of what America is, the way it's playing out in the lives of individual Americans, it is disturbing and weird. We talked about the children and the U.S. born children who had been deported along with their mothers. I was just reading that this week, for example, Adam Peña, he's a California attorney. And a U.S. born citizen. He's an immigration attorney. His family has been here for more than a century. They're as American as you can get. He received a letter from DHS to self deport. And he's like, where would I self deport to? We have been living here for a hundred years, we are Americans. And he told a San Diego news station that he thinks that this is an intimidation tactic, because he's an immigration lawyer and some other of his fellow immigration lawyers have received similar letters. But nevertheless, it is an intimidation tactic, an intimidation against the core idea of one's Americanness. And so to that point, actually, there's been some attempted action on Capitol Hill this week. Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington. Went so far as to introduce, she's a Democrat. Introduce an amendment to ensure that taxpayer dollars cannot be used by ICE to detain or deport U.S. citizens. And here's what she said on the house floor just two days ago. JAYAPAL:  ICE has zero authority to even detain U.S. citizens as ICE's own policy states. Quote, as a matter of law, ICE cannot assert its civil immigration enforcement authority to arrest and or detain a U.S. citizen. CHAKRABARTI Okay. So that's her proposed amendment, and here is a follow-up comment from Democratic representative Ted Lieu of California. LIEU: The fact that Democrats and my colleague, Representative Pramila feel the need to even introduce an amendment that says ICE cannot deport U.S. citizens is [expletive] crazy. This should not even be a discussion. It is not even a question. U.S. citizens cannot be deported by ICE. It's the law. It's the constitution. I will be astounded if Republicans vote no on this. CHAKRABARTI: Okay, so let's listen to the roll call for how the vote went. CHAKRABARTI: So representative Jayapal's amendment that ICE cannot deport U.S. citizens using taxpayer dollars was voted down by Republican members of the House. RICHARDSON: There's even something more, I think, of concern to American citizens right now, and that's what happened in Oklahoma City a couple of weeks ago. When ICE agents and people who claim they were ICE agents and U.S. Marshals and members of the FBI, although the Marshals and the FBI have said, they were not involved, although they knew it was going to happen. Went, broke into a house and trashed the house and took the cell phones, the laptops, and all the money that was there, which was the family's life savings because they had a search warrant to go into that house to look for undocumented immigrants. But in fact, the people that they were looking for had moved out of the house. And the people who were there were U.S. citizens who had just recently arrived from Maryland. And they sent the kids out, the teenage daughters outside in their underwear in the rain with their mother while they did this to the house. And the mother kept saying, we're U.S. citizens. We're U.S. citizens. And then left them with, again, no way to contact anybody, had no money and no card to know where they could get those things back. Now that idea that we can go after U.S. citizens with our immigration and customs enforcement, law enforcement officers, to look for undocumented immigrants, that puts every single American citizen at risk. And as you say, I think that's an intimidation factor. But I think it's also this idea that unless you are on the side of a particular political party, so that you're not going to be intimidated, that you're going to be pushed outside of the people who get to have rights in the United States. And that's a much bigger, as I say, political project that would redefine America. CHAKRABARTI: Okay. 1866. 1872. 1898. Over and over again, every time this question of, if you are born in the United States, are you or are you not a citizen? This country has basically unanimously fallen on the side of, yes. You are a citizen. You do have that birthright. And what's fascinating to me, you also wrote a book about the Republican Party pre- and post-Civil War, that was all championed by the Republican Party in the 19th century. And that party is not existent anymore. CHAKRABARTI: It's the party of Donald Trump. And I wanna just in this last few minutes, and I want to hear what you have to say about this by stealing an idea from your letter on birthright citizenship, because it's not even the party of Ronald Reagan anymore. You pointed out that in Reagan's last speech, January 19th, 1989, his last speech as president. He actually thought about what makes America so great, and he did so by recalling a letter he had recently received. REAGAN: You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk or Japanese. But anyone from any corner of the Earth can come to live in America and become an American.  CHAKRABARTI: Professor Richardson, I'm gonna give you the last word on here, but let's listen to a little bit more about why Reagan wanted to point this out. REAGAN: We lead the world because unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so, we continuously renew and enrich our nation, while other countries cling to the stale past, here in America, we breathe life into dreams, we create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever close the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost. CHAKRABARTI: Ronald Reagan on January 19th, 1989. RICHARDSON: And it's an important piece there because he was actually saying that at a ceremony to honor George Shultz and the other person to whom he was giving the medal of freedom. So he goes off script. Obviously, it's written, but he goes off script to insert into that speech honoring them. This piece that is clearly his final word. He even says, this is the last speech I'm going to give, and this is what I want to say. That, I think, is significant because he recognized the importance of how we define America and in order to keep it alive and vital and growing. And as I say, you know, this place where anybody can come and be an American, which has always been what made America great was so important to him that he needed to say it one last time in that particular moment. Paige Sutherland Producer, On PointPaige Sutherland is a producer for On Point. Meghna Chakrabarti Host On PointMeghna Chakrabarti is the host of On Point the Braves announced adding another pitcher to their organization with ties to the state The team released on X (formerly Twitter) that they signed left-hander Austin Cox to a major league contract The Braves also optioned Cox to Triple-A Gwinnett Cox was born in Macon he pitched at First Presbyterian Day School in the same town Cox began his MLB career as a fifth-round draft pick out of Mercer for the Kansas City Royals in the 2018 MLB Amateur Draft Counting 2020 in which he didn't pitch due to there being no minor league games because of the COVID-19 pandemic he spent parts of eight seasons in the Royals organization The Royals released Cox on Sunday the same day the Braves added him to Triple-A Gwinnett Cox only appeared in the MLB for the Royals during the 2023 season he posted a 4.54 ERA and 1.262 WHIP in 35.2 innings Cox also registered 33 strikeouts with 17 walks This season, Cox was 2-1 with a 3.55 ERA and 1.342 WHIP in 12.2 innings over 11 relief appearances at Triple-A Omaha the left-hander pitched both at Triple-A and Double-A but mostly appeared in games for Omaha Cox went 12-8 with a 6.61 ERA and 1.714 WHIP in 179.2 innings across three seasons Cox will have to earn any MLB opportunity he receives with the Braves particularly with his lack of big-league experience But the Braves relief pitching has struggled early this season and there could be an opening for another left-handed reliever in the team's bullpen DAVE HOLCOMB The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER an athletic scholarship to the University of Maryland meant freedom to explore her personal and professional interests It also meant freedom to foster a life where she could work to live rather than live to work.  The scholarship enabled her to explore the country and pursue a career unbounded by location had mountainous adventures and worked as a nurse in the Bay Area Cox was a successful Maryland women’s lacrosse player.  The former midfielder maintained Maryland’s legacy of dominance in women’s lacrosse beginning her career fresh off the Terps’ seven-year title streak from 1995-2001 The team made the NCAA tournament all four years of Cox’s college career the Terps won the ACC Tournament and played in the Final Four.  Cox also won several IWLCA individual awards Rookie of the Year (2003) and Second Team All-American honors in 2004 and 2006 She was named to the All-ACC team three times (2004 2006) and is one of only nine Terps to achieve an All-ACC hat trick.  Cox served as team captain during her senior year She still ranks sixth in program history in ground balls (201) and 26th in total points (218).  “It’s a blessing to be on a team that was competing every single year for a championship,” Cox said “I’m getting goosebumps thinking about how incredible we were as a team.” Cox grew up in a small town on the Massachusetts coast as the first-born child of successful athlete parents played professional ice hockey and was the last player cut from the famed 1980 United States Men’s Olympic Hockey team The University of New Hampshire ice hockey alum has even been depicted on television and in movie adaptations of the “Miracle on Ice.” Her mother also ran track and field and set records at her high school.  “I have extremely strong athletic genes in my family,” Cox said I picked up a lacrosse stick and had so much fun with it.” When Cox transferred to a private school for her sophomore year of high school to be involved in extracurricular activities She ran track in the fall but was unsure of her spring activity until she tried her hand at lacrosse Cox grew to enjoy the sport and improved rapidly leading her to seek opportunities to continue her playing career.  She fell in love with the Maryland women’s lacrosse program after she attended its on-campus summer camp National Lacrosse Hall of Famers Cindy Timchal and Gary Gait Cox believes the coaches saw something in her at a camp because Coach Gait came to watch one of her high school soccer games the following fall This allowed her to imagine a prospective future with Maryland lacrosse.  “It definitely seemed like reaching for the stars “I was so ridiculously excited for Maryland to come recruit me It just wasn’t something that I was expecting.” Cox's recruiting visit to Maryland stood out amongst the other school she visited She noted how appreciative she was of Maryland’s robust recruiting process for its women’s sports.  “A strong university academically and athletically It was such a special experience for me as a human being Aside from Maryland’s on-field accomplishments Cox most fondly remembers the off-the-field time that brought her lifelong friendships and an unwavering sense of Maryland pride.  “It’s such a unique space to be on a team,” Cox said “I don’t know if you can really replicate that Staying on track academically and the time management of it all Those in-between times of becoming a team and a family were so memorable.” Cox cited her athletics scholarship as one of her life's most positive inflection points she appreciates the donors who supported her student-athlete experience.  “What a gift to be afforded the opportunity to go to a university like Maryland and to be so supported in my journey there It’s just a blessing and makes me feel very humble and grateful The ripple effects of that scholarship and what it’s given to me to this day It’s given me access to such a beautiful life.” mountain lifestyle before returning to the East Coast for nursing school Cox highlighted the significance of graduating without student loans which permitted her to make that cross-country move and to save more easily for more school.  “It was the freedom of the scholarship to go and explore who I wanted to be then I could go dig in and commit,” Cox said.  Cox currently works as a nurse at Stanford Children’s Health She remains close to her New England-based parents including many of her former Maryland lacrosse teammates “I have a loving support system and I deeply value the friendships that have reliably been there for me as we ride the waves of life together,” Cox said “My Maryland Athletics scholarship gave me the freedom to get in touch with my heart and go be who I wanted to be in the world I’m having fun exploring what life has to offer.” Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here China has 30 nuclear reactors under construction only a very few have been built in the United States “Built Here” is a nuclear energy summit Cox convened on Tuesday in Draper “We want to be the center of excellence,” he said “There is a nuclear renaissance happening and it is happening in Utah.” Brad Little in the signing of a memorandum of understanding that solidifies the regional effort to lay a policy platform for energy development The document declares the states “share a unique geographic and economic landscape rich in energy resources and critical minerals essential for modern energy systems The states also participate in a common energy market and face common challenges related to energy production and distribution the environmental and economic impacts of energy transition and volatile federal regulatory priorities.” The agreement underscores the urgency that drives Cox to be a leader in this energy space there were a variety of notable people who work in the arena of energy its development and how to get the United States on the map the director of the Idaho National Laboratory and the dean of the University of Utah’s College of Engineering He talked of tearing down an old barn with a sledgehammer he pondered to the crowd how long it took to build the thinking and planning that went into it He said it is so easy to tear something down That is where the United States stands to fall behind when it comes to energy “This is one we cannot afford to lose,” Wagner said referring to the race for the United States to be energy independent and meet the demands of the grid when it comes to data centers and AI but I would say they manufacture intelligence They manufacture insight that is literally going to change the world and it’s absolutely critical that the United States leads in that development We talk about nuclear power and other things being built in China and global leadership races and challenges in different areas.” First of its kind technology of any kind is expensive Wagner was talking about small modular reactors and microreactors “Getting over the first of its kind is a hurdle,” he stressed home and business incentives through multiple rebates the utility company offers But with the real-world technology demands of today utility providers are struggling to keep up We’re at a generational shift where we need to talk about how we move from where we are to where we need an abundance of energy infrastructure so we have what we need for today but also for the economy and the business and quality of life,” said Dick Garlish chief executive officer for Rocky Mountain Power Cox and key lawmakers saw this coming for some time and in Utah’s last legislative session key measures to establish a Utah Energy Council and a nuclear consortium were passed and signed to draw on expertise to move the state forward Rep. Carl Albrecht, R-Richfield, pushed HB249 to passage with many lawmakers and Cox behind him who recognized the urgency personified what he is — a wait-and-see man  “We’ll see.” Those are his catchwords from a man who spent 40 years with Garkane Energy — 23 as chief executive officer he is also hopeful even though he knows the reality of the energy landscape and the hard work that has to be done to get a project moving community sentiment and overcoming the NIMBY syndrome speakers emphasized that there is an awakening That is why multiple presidential administrations have emphasized that energy has to evolve and there’s been billions of dollars invested to pursue advanced nuclear development senior adviser for energy for the Defense Innovation Unit with the Department of Defense said the agency is heavily invested with nuclear energy as a resource to power the mission under development by the Idaho National Laboratory which is scheduled to demonstrate next year Idaho National Laboratory is actively helping Tooele Army Depot in Tooele County and the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground the latter of which occupies an area the size of Rhode Island Robinson said the pursuit has not been without careful consideration but steeped in the reality of energy demands There is an ability to house a small modular reactor or a microreactor on a military installation “We’re doing this right next to where we live So we have confidence in those nuclear reactors and we’re willing to put it within miles of our elementary schools and our homes we have to be very public because these towns look just like any other town around America.” Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Steve graduated from LaVille High School with the class of 1981 Steve met Denise Dipert driving through the park in his Mustang as she was finishing playing basketball he followed her home and the rest was history He was known for his strong work ethic; he worked for Burger Chef and Tri-Way Drive-In Theater like Steve was he gave Universal Bearings 43 years Fun-loving and adventurous are just a couple of words that adequately describe who he was drawing everyone that he encountered into him entertaining family and friends for a lifetime on his deck where countless friends and family would gather around the fire pit but more for the camaraderie of bringing everyone together His friends would infectiously call this Spider Web Brewery Steve loved his family; he never missed any event that his children or grandchildren were involved in Steve was an active member of the Plymouth Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge #741 He is survived by his mother Shirley of Plymouth; wife Denise of Plymouth; daughter Samantha (Zach) Taylor and their children: Bentley and Payton of Plymouth; son Dylan Cox of Plymouth; brother Jim (Barb) Cox; of Plymouth; brother-in-law Brent (Linda) Dipert of Michigan; and his dogs Mia and Harley Steve is preceded in death by his father Olen and brother Kim A celebration of life will be held on Saturday at 1:00 pm at the Plymouth Moose Lodge #741 All are welcome to enjoy a meal following the service The family would like to thank the Center for Hospice Care of Plymouth Memorial contributions may be given to the Center for Hospice Care IN 46563 or to the Marshall County Humane Society Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors 2025 at Princeton Assisted Living after a period of declining health 1937 to the late Haskel and Reva Chase Cox; She was one of seven siblings She was a 1955 graduate of Holston High School and went on to begin work at Eastman Chemical Company the couple moved to Florida for a short period before returning to Kingsport to care for family and retiring from Colonial Hill Retirement Home at the age of 80 She enjoyed cooking and caring for her loved ones and friends Phyllis was a beloved member of Harmony Baptist Church where she was an active member of the choir She was passionate about music and a sports fanatic She was active in participating in her grandchildren’s sports; she was their #1 fan and supporter Phyllis was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years Those left to cherish her memory include her brother Brayden and Kensley Goddard and Addalyn and Jase Harris; close friend of the family Wanda Cox; “sister” and friend The family will receive friends from 5pm – 7pm on Wednesday A memorial service will follow at 7pm with Pastor Steve Pate and the Honorary Dr A graveside service will be held at 11am on Thursday 2025 at Harmony Cemetery with close friends and family Those attending the graveside are asked to gather at the cemetery at 10:45am Honorary pallbearers will be Justin Harris those wishing to make memorial contributions to Kari’s Heart Foundation He then had a career as the Engineering Plant Supervisor at Hyster-Yale Forklift Manufacturing in Greenville Sheila Gibbs Cox of Atlantic Beach; and two sons and Ryan Ward Cox of Atlantic Beach.  Condolences and life tributes may be sent to the family at www.noebrooks.net Arrangements by Noe-Brooks Funeral Home & Crematory of Morehead City John and Judy Gay Library welcomed voters to cast their ballot during early voting and on election day. (Karen Chaney/Community Impact) Shelbie joined Community Impact in August 2022 and has been the editor of the McKinney edition since July 2023. Prior to CI, Shelbie served as a business news fellow for the Dallas Morning News. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University in May 2022. When she’s not writing, she enjoys photography and live music. COX CITY, Okla. (KOKH) — Two people were injured after a road washed out in rural Grady County on Wednesday. Grady County commissioners say there is major flooding in Cox City, which led to the washout. Two people inside a pickup were injured and taken to the hospital. The extent of their injuries is unknown. In another part of the county, County Road 1340 between 92 Highway and County Street 2860 is closed indefinitely. County commissioners say a tinhorn under the road separated risking a collapse. Flooding also shut down a portion of a county road near Highway 37. XLinkedInby Pivot BROADBAND NATION FIBER BROADBAND FIXED WIRELESS MARKET RESEARCH RURAL BROADBAND VIDEO BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Divisionis taking exception to some of Cox Communications’ advertising claims The National Advertising Division (NAD) is recommending that Cox modify its multi-gigabit advertising claims The two companies offer competing internet services in some U.S the advertising division is recommending that Cox discontinue the claim “Multi Gig Speeds Everywhere” or modify it to accurately reflect the availability of its 2 Gbps tier service However, NAD said no evidence in the record supported that message so NAD recommended that the commercial be modified to avoid conveying the message that Cox offers multi gig upload speeds NAD further determined that the multigigabit claims must be supported by evidence that the service is available to all customers wherever the claim is made NAD also wants Cox to discontinue the claim “Get into the fast lane with Cox Business and get speeds that are up to 20X faster than T-Mobile and AT&T 5G Internet” in markets where AT&T offers a fiber product with speeds faster than 100 Mbps to small business customers or modify its advertising to avoid conveying certain implied messages the message isn’t true in markets where AT&T offers its faster fiber product.  the recommendations come after a challenge from AT&T which contends that the Cox multi-gigabit claims mistakenly give the impression that the company offers both multi-gig download and upload speeds the Cox internet service only offers multi-gig download speeds Cox voluntarily permanently discontinued claims that it is the nation’s fastest internet provider that were based on an award from the website HighSpeedInternet.com during the proceeding Subscribe and stay up to date with Telecompetitor’s newsletters today. Barbara Ann Cox, a cherished mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away peacefully on April 24, 2025, at the age of 78 in Blytheville, Arkansas. Born on March 13, 1947, in Paragould, Arkansas, Barbara's warmth and compassion touched the lives of many throughout her rich and fulfilling life. Barbara was preceded in death by her parents, Herman and Mary Riggs; husband, Larry Cox; and four siblings, Bob Riggs, Dorothy Jean Edwards, Patti Hale, and Betty Sue Riggs. With a heart full of love and a smile that could light up any room, Barbara dedicated her life to her family. She is survived by her loving son, David Cox, and her devoted daughter, Stacey Brown. Barbara was a pillar of strength and support, always putting the needs of her children above her own and instilling in them the values of kindness and perseverance.  She also leaves behind a brother, Mike Riggs. Professionally, Barbara was the proud owner and operator of Decorator's Choice in Paragould for 15 years, where she combined her passion for design with her keen business sense. She was a respected figure in the business community, known for her integrity, creativity, and dedication to her clients. Beyond her family and work, Barbara's interests were varied and rich. She was especially fond of spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, cherishing every moment and creating lasting memories. Her love for her family was the driving force in her life and the foundation upon which all else was built. On Wednesday, the gratitude was flowing both ways: after De Niro said in a profile with Them that she counted the trans actress as someone to look up to Cox thanked her for the recognition and bestowed some inspiring words “I just read that I'm one of the women who’ve inspired you over the years and I'm deeply deeply honored that I can be an inspiration for you,” Cox said in a video posted to her Instagram She was invoked by De Niro amongst names like Naomi Campbell and Keke Palmer as women who have offered her alternatives to whitewashed ideas of womanhood and I want to congratulate you on embracing the beauty that you are and I’m not talking about the outside I’m talking about the beauty that is being trans.” Cox went further describing trans people as anointed she pointed to a long global history in which trans folks have been considered important aspects of religious practices in indigenous cultures all over the world we’ve been the spiritual leaders,” she explained “We’ve been the way the truth and the life and claiming our transness and owning it and stepping into a sacredness and anointedness that is really really beautiful — so congratulations on accepting and embracing your beautiful light.” But Cox was only one voice in the online welcoming committee De Niro has encountered since opening up with Them about her womanhood In that profile she discussed transitioning and her life as the daughter of Hollywood legends On her Instagram she expressed surprise that the news had reached People magazine amongst other publications while describing herself as “literally just a girl with a phone.” "Thank you to everyone who's been so sweet and supportive," the 29-year-old wrote "I'm not used to all these eyes on me." This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from Read the full transcript of Cox’s “thank you” message to Airyn de Niro below: I just want to take a moment to give a special shout out to Airyn de Niro I just read that I'm one of the women who’ve inspired you over the years and I'm deeply deeply honored that I can be an inspiration for you particularly in these deeply troubling times moments of feeling like iIm not doing enough that I should be doing more and I always have to remind myself that if I can touch one person’s life to live authentically and embrace every single aspect of who they are then that is enough I’m trying to do more but I'm only one person and I have to take care of my mental health and I have to do all things I am enough and I do enough and I want to congratulate you on embracing the beauty that you are and I’m not talking about the outside I’m talking about the beauty that is being trans I believe in every fiber of my being that trans people are anointed that we are being attacked so viciously because we are the answer in indigenous cultures all over the world we’ve been the spiritual leaders: we’ve been the way the truth and the life and claiming our transness and owning it and stepping into a sacredness and anointedness that is really really beautiful so congratulations on accepting and embracing your beautiful light And thank you for the reminder that I am enough Get the best of what’s queer. 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