Supreme Court docket Will Hear Arguments on Essential Case Wednesday — and Trump Says He Will Be There
The Supreme Court is scheduled to take up the case regarding birthright citizenship Wednesday morning, and President Donald Trump said from the Oval Office Tuesday that he would be in attendance to listen to oral arguments.
“I’m going,” he told reporters, “because I have listened to this argument for so long.”
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump said he is GOING to the Supreme Court when they hear the birthright citizenship case tomorrow
Wow!
This could truly be THE most important case in modern US history—and 47’s taking it seriously
No more anchor babies! pic.twitter.com/e5BZZzk0ws
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 31, 2026
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.
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