Neres scores twice to help Napoli move top of Serie A, Bologna wins to join Inter and Roma in 2nd

MILAN (AP) — David Neres provided two goals and an assist to help Napoli beat Atalanta 3-1 and move top of Serie A on Saturday.

It was the first time Neres had scored since January.

Napoli is a point ahead of Inter Milan, Roma and Bologna but could be overtaken on Sunday when Roma visits Cremonese and Inter hosts Milan in a city derby. Milan is also only three points behind Napoli.

Bologna won 3-0 at Udinese earlier, while sixth-place Juventus was held to a 1-1 draw at bottom club Fiorentina.

Napoli was without a win in November having drawn in Serie A and the Champions League before losing to Bologna before the international break.

It took the lead in the 17th minute when Neres raced away from his marker and kept his cool to slot into the far bottom corner.

He had waited 11 months for that goal but only had to wait another 21 minutes before scoring again, firing home a smart pass from Scott McTominay.

Neres then turned provider on the stroke of halftime with a cross from the right for Noa Lang to head in his first goal for Napoli since joining from PSV Eindhoven in the offseason.

Substitute Gianluca Scamacca pulled one back seven minutes into the second half but it proved little more than a consolation for Atalanta and new coach Raffaele Palladino.

Bologna winger Riccardo Orsolini, the league’s leading scorer, recovered from a rare penalty miss to set up Tommaso Pobega for the first of his two goals.

Bologna struggled to break Udinese down but was given a golden chance shortly before halftime when Udinese defender Kingsley Ehizibue blocked Pobega’s shot with his elbow.

However, Maduka Okoye saved the resulting penalty from Orsolini — who had scored 15 of his 16 previous spot kicks.

Orsolini thought he had redeemed himself minutes later but his would-be goal was ruled out for offside.

Bologna broke the deadlock in the 54th minute. Orsolini knocked down a cross-field pass and cut inside before rolling it across for Pobega to drill into the bottom left corner.

Worse was to come for Udinese six minutes later as Okoye’s terrible pass was intercepted by Pobega to score his second of the game.

Udinese did not learn from that and got into another mess trying to play out from the back in stoppage time, allowing Federico Bernardeschi to sweep into an empty net.

Juventus was held to its third straight draw as it struggled to deal with Fiorentina and a fired-up Moise Kean.

The 25-year-old Kean, who started his career at Juventus, was returning from a shin injury and he was Fiorentina’s most threatening player in the first half, during which he hit the crossbar.

Juventus took the lead in the sixth minute of stoppage time with a fierce, 25-yard shot from Filip Kostic.

There had been so much time added on because play had to be halted because of racist chanting directed at former Fiorentina forward Dusan Vlahovic, who is Serbian, and there had also been a lengthy video review that led to a penalty being revoked after being awarded to Juventus

Fiorentina leveled almost immediately after halftime as two former Juve players combined with Kean setting up Rolando Mandragora for a long-range strike into the far top corner.

Elsewhere, Daniele De Rossi's Genoa drew 3-3 at Cagliari in a relegation battle. Genoa moved level with 17th-placed Parma, three points below Cagliari.

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Napoli's David Neres, left, and Atalanta's Isak Hien, right, challenge for the ball during the Serie A soccer match between SSC Napoli and Atalanta Bergamo in Naples, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22 , 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Napoli's David Neres, right, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Serie A soccer match between SSC Napoli and Atalanta Bergamo in Naples, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22 , 2025. (Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse via AP)

Fiorentina's head coach Paolo Vanoli, left, and Juventus' head coach Luciano Spalletti during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Juventus in Florence, Italy, Saturday Nov. 22, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Juventus' Filip Kostic celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Juventus in Florence, Italy, Saturday Nov. 22, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Fiorentina's Rolando Mandragora, center, celebrates scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Juventus in Florence, Italy, Saturday Nov. 22, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Genoa's Leo Skiri Ostigard, left, celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Cagliari Calcio and Genoa in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Gianluca Zuddas/LaPresse via AP)

Cagliari's Gennaro Borrelli celebrates after scoring their side's first goal of the game during the Serie A soccer match between Cagliari Calcio and Genoa in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Gianluca Zuddas/LaPresse via AP)

Bologna's Tommaso Pobega celebrates after scoring their side's first goal of the game during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Bologna in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Andrea Bressanutti/LaPresse via AP)

Bologna's Tommaso Pobega scores their side's first goal of the game during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Bologna in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Andrea Bressanutti/LaPresse via AP)

Bologna's Tommaso Pobega celebrates after scoring their side's first goal of the game during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Bologna in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Andrea Bressanutti/LaPresse via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for some of the arguments.

The justices are hearing Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions, one of several courts that have blocked them. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.

Trump is the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court. He spent just over an hour inside the courtroom, hearing arguments by the government’s lawyer, Solicitor General D. John Sauer. He left shortly after Sauer wrapped up and the plaintiff was invited to present her case.

The case frames another test of Trump's assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court that has largely ruled in the president's favor — but with some notable exceptions that Trump has responded to with starkly personal criticisms of the justices. A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.

The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.

Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.

He issued a preemptive broadside against the court on Sunday on his Truth Social platform. “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America. It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!,” the president wrote. “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”

Trump's order would upend the long-standing view that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, and federal law since 1940 confer citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “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,” it reads.

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down the executive order as illegal, or likely so, under the Constitution and federal law. The decisions have invoked the high court's 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

The Trump administration argues that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.

The court should use the case to set straight “long-enduring misconceptions about the Constitution’s meaning,” wrote Sauer, the solicitor general.

No court has accepted that argument, and lawyers for pregnant women whose children would be affected by the order said the Supreme Court should not be the first to do so.

“We have the president of the United States trying to radically reinterpret the definition of American citizenship,” said Cecillia Wang, the American Civil Liberties Union legal director who is facing off against Sauer at the Supreme Court.

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would be affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright restrictions also would apply to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.

Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

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Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Donald Trump leaves the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Demonstrators holding opposing views verbally engage ahead of President Donald Trump's arrival at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

President Donald Trump's limo exits the White House en route to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen as the moon rises Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)