President Donald Trump said he plans to be in attendance when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday on his\u00a0birthright citizenship executive order.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going,\u201d Trump told reporters Tuesday, before adding a bit more tentatively, \u201cI think so. I do believe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The presence of a sitting president at the high court during oral arguments would be a first, according to historians. But Trump has previously flirted with attending oral arguments before reversing course. Last October, he said he planned to attend arguments for his so-called Liberation Day tariffs, but\u00a0he later backed down. He wound up losing that case, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Asked about the president\u2019s plans, a White House spokesperson referred back to his comments to journalists. A Supreme Court spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump repeated his argument that the Constitution\u2019s 14th Amendment was only intended to give citizenship to the children of former slaves and was not intended to apply to virtually anyone born on U.S. soil. The majority of constitutional scholars and legal precedents reject his view.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything having to do with birthright citizenship, it was at the end of the Civil War,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves. It didn’t have to do with the protection of multi-millionaires and billionaires wanting to have their children get an American citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his first day back in office last year, Trump signed an executive order that sought to deny federal benefits such as passports to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants and those on limited-duration visas. He argued that the prospect of automatic U.S. citizenship encourages illegal immigration and so-called birth tourism, where families arrange to have their children while visiting the U.S.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s order was blocked by a series of judges, who ruled that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to almost everyone born in the U.S., regardless of their parents\u2019 status. The justices are set to hear arguments Wednesday on the Trump administration\u2019s bid to overturn the lower court rulings and let Trump\u2019s order take effect.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s latest salvos toward the high court come as he has repeatedly hectored the justices on social media, often alternating between calls to back his citizenship order and bitter complaints about his loss in the tariff case.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Trump asserted that Republican-appointed justices and judges often vote against the views of the president who picked them while Democratic-appointed jurists \u201calmost without fail\u201d vote in lockstep with their political backers.<\/p>\n
Discussing the court\u2019s GOP nominees, Trump said: \u201cSome people would call it stupidity. Some people would call it disloyal. Some people would say they’re right.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, earlier Tuesday, the court issued an 8-1 ruling that\u00a0rejected Colorado\u2019s ban on so-called conversion therapy\u00a0aimed at LGBTQ people. In that case, two of the court\u2019s liberal appointees voted with all the conservative justices to support the position endorsed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
Trump said Tuesday that he\u2019s been at the Supreme Court \u201conce before,\u201d but he\u2019s visited at least four times as president. He attended the formal investiture ceremonies for his first two nominees:\u00a0Justice Neil Gorsuch, in 2017, and\u00a0Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.<\/p>\n
Trump also\u00a0visited the high court in 2019, following the death of retired Justice John Paul Stevens, and in 2020, during\u00a0funeral ceremonies for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He was not on hand for the formal installation of his nominee to replace Ginsburg, Justice Amy Coney Barrett. She was confirmed in 2020, but her ceremonial investiture was delayed for almost a year \u2014 into President Joe Biden\u2019s term \u2014 due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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