The Supreme Court is poised to tackle the contentious issue of birthright citizenship as arguments are set to commence on Wednesday morning. On the eve of this significant hearing, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that he intends to be present during the proceedings to witness the oral arguments firsthand.
“I’m attending,” Trump informed reporters, “because I have heard this debate for far too long.” His attendance underlines the high stakes of the case, which revolves around an executive order he enacted upon resuming office in January 2025. This order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” aims to revoke the automatic citizenship granted to children born in the United States unless at least one parent holds citizenship or permanent residency.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later affirmed that Trump is indeed planning to be in attendance as the justices deliberate over the constitutional implications of his executive order. The order has already been struck down by lower courts, which have deemed it unconstitutional, sparking a series of legal challenges.
Trump contends that the principle of birthright citizenship has been misinterpreted over the years and argues that the framers of the 14th Amendment — which enshrines birthright citizenship — never intended for it to be applied in the manner it is today.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed later Tuesday that he did indeed plan on being there as the justices hear arguments over the constitutionality of an executive order he signed on his first day back in office in January 2025. Called “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” the order sought to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or permanent legal resident.
The lawsuits immediately flew in, of course, and lower courts predictably ruled that his order was unconstitutional. Trump argues that birthright citizenship has long been misunderstood and that its use today is not at all what the writers of the 14th Amendment, which codified birthright citizenship, had in mind.
‘…I’m going,’ Trump said when a reporter brought up the case.
The President said he was attending ‘because I have listened to this argument for so long.’
‘And this is not about Chinese billionaires who are billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case, or 10 children, becoming American citizens,’ Trump argued. ‘This was about slaves.’
Birthright citizenship was established by the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship to recently freed slaves – but historically has applied to every person born in the US or its territories.
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Historians say there is no record of a sitting president ever attending a SCOTUS hearing.
Numerous leftist pundits are accusing the president of trying to bend the concept of separation of powers by using the executive branch to intimidate the judicial branch. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon has a message for them: cool your jets.
There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur. https://t.co/unVfZPgD9v
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) March 31, 2026
Trump had said that he “might” attend a SCOTUS hearing on tariffs in November ’25, but in the end, he did not. It certainly would be something for the history books if he did this time. I just hope for his sake he doesn’t have to listen to one of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s diatribes, which are starting to grow legendary even to her fellow jurists for their length and strange interpretations of the law.
Good luck, Mr. President.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left’s lies, new legislation wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.
