Law professor discusses Supreme Court's final rulings this term

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kim Wehle {WAIL-ee}, professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, about the Supreme Court's final decisions this term. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Supreme Court wrapped up its term this morning with three consequential decisions on birthright citizenship, campaign finance and trans athlete bans. Joining us to talk about this is Kim Wehle. She's professor of law at the University of Baltimore Law School where she teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, administrative law and federal courts. Professor Wehle, thanks so much for joining us once again. KIM WEHLE: Great to be with you. MARTIN: Let's start with that birthright citizenship decision. The Supreme Court ruled that virtually all children born in this country are entitled to birthright citizenship. How much of a - I don't know what word to use - rebuke is this to President Trump? WEHLE: Well, you know, in listening to you restate the holding, it's ironic because you just restated the text of the 14th Amendment, which says all persons born. So this is the kind of decision that they could have just pointed to the Constitution and said, there's really not a job for the Supreme Court here. You just read the text. We're textualists, as the majority likes to say. And here we have a 5-4 ruling - or if you count Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, 6-4 - 6-3 - on a debate around the plain language of the Constitution itself. …