The Supreme Court’s ruling allows the President to temporarily revoke birthright citizenship; Ruth Marcus and Michael Luo make sense of the decision. And, then, a report from Venice, where Jeff Bezos is getting married this weekend. Plus:

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump Administration to end birthright citizenship in some parts of the country. The majority decision focused on the issue of “nationwide injunctions,” rather than the merits of birthright citizenship, but Trump is still seizing on it: “Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard. It had to do with the babies of slaves (same year!), not the SCAMMING of our Immigration process.” We talked to Michael Luo, who wrote recently on the question of who gets to be an American citizen, a debate as old as the United States.

Q: How bad is it?

Luo: I’ve been reading Justice Sotomayor’s dissent. Her sarcasm is hilarious to me but also sobering, underscoring the individual lives that will now be upended. “The Government now asks this Court to grant emergency relief insisting it will suffer irreparable harm unless it can deprive at least some children born in the United States of citizenship,” she writes.

She distills very succinctly what is at stake:

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship. The majority holds that, absent cumbersome class-action litigation, courts cannot completely enjoin even such plainly unlawful policies unless doing so is necessary to afford the formal parties complete relief. That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent.”

Politics tends to operate at the level of abstraction, which I think we need to resist. Today, I’ve mostly been thinking of the families that will be affected in the coming days, and the fear and chaos that has been unleashed by this decision.

For more: Read Ruth Marcus on the Supreme Court’s decision to side with Trump against the judiciary.

Earlier this week, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that the U.S. intends to withhold funding from Gavi, the organization that works to bring vaccines to low-income countries. With this move, Rivka Galchen argues, the U.S. may be doing more than simply failing to aid global vaccination efforts. “The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious,” she writes. And we’re now on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. Read the story »

Watch: “F1” is out in theatres today. Our film critic Justin Chang notes that the new Brad Pitt movie is “a snazzy piece of blockbuster engineering.”

Listen: The New Yorker staff writer Ronan Farrow joined Amy Poehler on the most recent episode of her podcast, “Good Hang,” to discuss their love for their friend Natasha Lyonne.

Today’s Crossword Puzzle: What “bread” and “dough” can both refer to—five letters.

P.S. Terrance Hayes’s poem, “South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day,” begins with wise—and mouthwatering—words: “The comfort in the smell of bacon in the morning / is mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweet / as the part of the pig that stores the soul.” 🥓

Erin Neil contributed to today’s edition.