Birthright citizenship fight and Theodore Roosevelt library unveiled on Sunday Morning

Lee Cowan anchored a Sunday Morning edition that opened with one of the sharpest constitutional fights of the year. Mo Rocca’s segment examined birthright citizenship, what the principle means and why some are trying to restrict it, as the Supreme Court weighed the legality of President Trump’s executive order seeking to end it.

The court agreed in December 2025 to take up the case, and oral arguments were heard in June 2026. That made the segment more than a civics lesson: it was a live look at a question that goes to the heart of who is recognized as a U.S. citizen at birth.

The broadcast also turned to presidential legacy politics with the unveiling of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota’s Badlands. CBS described the project as a 96,000-square-foot tribute to the 26th president, arriving 107 years after Roosevelt’s death. Roosevelt still ranks among the nation’s five most popular presidents, and the library gives that reputation a concrete monument in the prairie grass.

The Roosevelt project also reflects a broader effort to preserve the documentary record around the president. Earlier reporting tied the library portion to Dickinson State University’s Theodore Roosevelt Center in Dickinson, where tens of thousands of Roosevelt-related documents, photos, film clips and audio recordings are being digitized. AP also reported that the project was originally planned as a split-site complex before the backers later consolidated the design.

Music and memory filled another segment, this one centered on Shooter Jennings and the archive left by his father, Waylon Jennings. CBS said Shooter Jennings is producing long-lost recordings that had been stashed away, with a second album from the archive, titled Diamonds, scheduled for release later in 2026. The story linked family inheritance to country-music history, since Waylon Jennings remains a defining outlaw-country figure.

The episode also included a catch-up interview with comedian and actor John Mulaney conducted by Tracy Smith, though the listing did not add further details. Two other pieces widened the show’s Sunday-morning range: one on childhood obesity, a public-health issue the CDC says affects about 1 in 5 U.S. children and adolescents, with a 21.1 percent prevalence among ages 2 to 19 in August 2021 through August 2023 and 7.0 percent classified as severe obesity; and another on the secrets of seahorses and seadragons. Together, the program mixed law, legacy, health and natural history into a single national snapshot.