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INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025 A9Health Tips and Resources as You Prepare Kids for SchoolWith some schools starting near the end of this month and others at the start of August, you know the time has come to begin preparing your kids for a healthy fall. Luckily, tips and resources are available to take some of the stress, time and costs out of that planning:Immunizations. Most children (3 years of age and older) can get many of their vaccines at pharmacies without an appointment. As a bonus, you can get vaccines you need while you%u2019re there. For Eskenazi Health Pharmacy locations and vaccines available, call 317-880-0000. Children who qualify for free vaccines through the Vaccines for Children Program, off ered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (cdc.gov/vaccines-for-children), do need to get their immunizations at a doctor%u2019s offi ce.There are also still some remaining vaccination clinics at schools. For upcoming clinics at Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), go to myips.org/central-services/unifi ed-student-supports/health-services.If you have any questions about which vaccines are recommended for your children, consult with your physician.Resource and health fairs. The summer is a great time to attend fairs that can give you wellness tips, save you time on health care and reduce back-to-school shopping costs. Here%u2019s just a sampling of options:Back to School Community Resource Day, hosted by the Marion County Public Health Department on July 12. The event will off er visitors school supplies, health screenings and entertainment (hhcorp.org/coveringkids-and-families). A fi re safety festival is also taking place at the same time and location.The Indiana Health Fair, July 17 through July 20. This four-day event includes educational resources, free health screenings and the chance to talk directly with community and health care experts. This event, located at the Indiana Convention Center, is packed with resources. See in.gov/health/indiana-health-fair for times and updates on participating organizations. Eskenazi Health, a longtime participant, will off er numerous services for children and adults. Protecting your own well-being is essential to your children, so take advantage of Eskenazi Health%u2019s adult event off erings, including blood pressure checks, fi nancial counseling, guidance from imaging services professionals on breast health information, and tips from rehabilitation services on avoiding falls.Eskenazi Health Center West 38th Street is hosting a health fair on Saturday, Aug. 2 from 10 a.m. %u2013 2 p.m., providing their own resources and those from other organizations.Eskenazi Health Center Grande is hosting a fair in late summer (Saturday, Aug. 16 from 10 a.m. %u2013 2 p.m.) featuring numerous resources from Eskenazi Health as well as from community resources.City League, the Urban League and other organizations have also put on back-to-school events previously, so watch the calendar to see if they%u2019re hosting events this year as well.You have so much to do as you plan for the start of your children%u2019s school year. Let these resources and tips make that job easier for you.Broderick Rhyant, M.D., chief physician executive with Eskenazi Health Center GrandeFeelin%u2019 all right?Let%u2019s make sure.July 17th-20thINDIANA CONVENTION CENTERFREEHealthScreeningsIndianaHealthFair.comthe Inside Out%u201d by Kierra Ready, Newfields%u2019 preview of Alma Thomas%u2019 Smithsonian show and the Indiana State Museum%u2019s %u201cREPRESENT: Indiana%u2019s Black Artists.%u201d The Indiana African American Genealogy Group will offer hands-on research.Individual artists featured include Tan%u00eda Michelle Wineglass (%u201cLost and Found%u201d), Faith Blackwell (%u201cWe Are The Culture: Fashion Meets Basketball%u201d) and Amira Alquraishy (%u201cThe Dreamer Has No Finish Line%u201d). A group exhibit, %u201cCourt Vision: The Art of Resilience and Excellence,%u201d curated by Arthentic Arts, showcases over 30 regional artists.Live programming thrives at the Art Speaks Caf%u00e9. It hosts music, spoken word, book talks and panels. Performers include Cle%u00f6crt Daniels, Reckless Rhymacide, Verbal i Music and Queen Quaymo. A free Sneaker Bar, presented with BOXX the Artist, allows the first 100 participants to customize footwear.Adjacent to Hall F, the Style Zone pop-up market runs July 20 (noon-7 p.m., Booth 1307). Hosted by Nikki Blaine Couture and featuring Claire Sulmers of Fashion Bomb Daily, it includes live styling. Actor and R&B artist Jacob Latimore performs live on the Hall F Entertainment Stage that same day at 3 p.m.A Fashion Show follows at 4 p.m. on the Hall F stage. It features designs by Elan Furs, Nikki Blaine Couture, and others, with special appearances by designers BruceGlen. The twins, known as %u201cFashion Preachers,%u201d bring their vibrant, sustainable designs from Washington, D.C.The Textures Institute of Cosmetology Hair Competition, slated for July 21 (1-4 p.m., Booth 907), offers a $1,000 grand prize. A new Nails Competition debuts this year.Contact Multi-Media & Senior Sports Reporter Noral Parham at 317-762-7846 or via email at noralp@indyrecorder.com. Follow him on Facebook @HorsemenSportsMedia. But the court left open the possibility that the birthright citizenship changes could remain blocked nationwide. Trump%u2019s order would deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally or temporarily.The cases now return to lower courts, where judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the high court ruling, which was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Enforcement of the policy can%u2019t take place for another 30 days, Barrett wrote.Even then it%u2019s unclear whether the court%u2019s decision could produce a confusing patchwork of rules that might differ in the 22 states that sued over the Trump order and the rest of the country.The justices agreed with the Trump administration, as well as President Joe Biden%u2019s Democratic administration before it, that judges are overreaching by issuing orders that apply to everyone instead of just the parties before the court. Judges have issued more than 40 such orders since Trump took office for a second term in January.The administration has filed emergency appeals with the justices of many of those orders, including the ones on birthright citizenship. The court rarely hears arguments and issues major decisions on its emergency, or shadow, docket, but it did so in this case.Federal courts, Barrett wrote, %u201cdo not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.%u201dThe president, speaking in the White House briefing room, said that the decision was %u201camazing%u201d and a %u201cmonumental victory for the Constitution,%u201d the separation of powers and the rule of law.Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York wrote on X that the decision is %u201can unprecedented and terrifying step toward authoritarianism, a grave danger to our democracy, and a predictable move from this extremist MAGA court.%u201dJustice Sonia Sotomayor, writing in dissent for the three liberal justices, called the decision %u201cnothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution.%u201d This is so, Sotomayor said, because the administration may be able to enforce a policy even when it has been challenged and found to be unconstitutional by a lower court.The administration didn%u2019t even ask, as it has in other cases, for the lower-court rulings to be blocked completely, Sotomayor wrote. %u201cTo get such relief, the government would have to show that the order is likely constitutional, an impossible task,%u201d she wrote.But the ultimate fate of the changes Trump wants to make were not before the court, Barrett wrote, just the rules that would apply as the court cases continue.Rights groups that sued over the policy filed new court documents following the high court ruling, taking up a suggestion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh that judges still may be able to reach anyone potentially affected by the birthright citizenship order by declaring them part of %u201cputative nationwide class.%u201d Kavanaugh was part of the court majority on Friday but wrote a separate concurring opinion.States that also challenged the policy in court said they would try to show that the only way to effectively protect their interests was through a nationwide hold.%u201cWe have every expectation we absolutely will be successful in keeping the 14th Amendment as the law of the land and of course birthright citizenship as well,%u201d said Attorney General Andrea Campbell of Massachusetts.Birthright citizenship automatically makes anyone born in the United States an American citizen, including children born to mothers in the country illegally. The right was enshrined soon after the Civil War in the Constitution%u2019s 14th Amendment.In a notable Supreme Court decision from 1898, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the court held that the only children who did not automatically receive U.S. citizenship upon being born on U.S. soil were the children of diplomats, who have allegiance to another government; enemies present in the U.S. during hostile occupation; those born on foreign ships; and those born to members of sovereign Native American tribes.The U.S. is among about 30 countries where birthright citizenship %u2014 the principle of jus soli or %u201cright of the soil%u201d %u2014 is applied. Most are in the Americas, and Canada and Mexico are among them.Trump and his supporters have argued that there should be tougher standards for becoming an American citizen, which he called %u201ca priceless and profound gift%u201d in the executive order he signed on his first day in office.The Trump administration has asserted that children of noncitizens are not %u201csubject to the jurisdiction%u201d of the United States, a phrase used in the amendment, and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.But states, immigrants and rights groups that have sued to block the executive order have accused the administration of trying to unsettle the broader understanding of birthright citizenship that has been accepted since the amendment%u2019s adoption.Judges have uniformly ruled against the administration.The Justice Department had argued that individual judges lack the power to give nationwide effect to their rulings.The Trump administration instead wanted the justices to allow Trump%u2019s plan to go into effect for everyone except the handful of people and groups that sued. Failing that, the administration argued that the plan could remain blocked for now in the 22 states that sued. New Hampshire is covered by a separate order that is not at issue in this case.The justices also agreed that the administration may make public announcements about how it plans to carry out the policy if it eventually is allowed to take effect.ARTS%u00a8Continued from A1COURT%u00a8Continued from A1