WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 31, 2026 - President Donald J. Trump said he plans to be in attendance when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday on his birthright citizenship executive order.
“I’m going,” President Trump told reporters Tuesday, before adding a bit more tentatively, “I think so. I do believe.”
The presence of a sitting president at the High Court during oral arguments would be a first, according to historians. But President 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 he later backed down. He wound up losing that case, 6-3.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump repeated his argument that the Constitution’s 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 United States soil.
“Everything having to do with birthright citizenship, it was at the end of the Civil War,” President Trump said. “The 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 (Amerikan) citizenship.”
On his first day back in office last year, President Trump signed an executive order that sought to deny federal benefits such as passports to children born in the U.S. to illegal invaders and those on limited-duration visas. He argued that the prospect of automatic U.S, citizenship encourages illegal invaders and so-called birth tourism, where families arrange to have their children while visiting the U.S.
President Trump’s 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 the parents’ status. The justices are set to hear arguments Wednesday on the Trump regime’s bid to overturn the lower court rulings and let President Trump’s order take effect.
President Trump’s 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.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, President Trump asserted that Republican-appointed justices and judges often vote against the views of the president who picked them while Democrat-appointed jurists “almost without fail” vote in lockstep with their political backers.
Discussing the Court’s GOP nominees, President Trump said, “Some people would call it stupidity. Some people would call it disloyal. Some people would say they're right.”
However, earlier Tuesday, the Court issued an 8-1 ruling that rejected Colorado’s ban on so-called conversion therapy aimed at homosexual and deviant transgender people. In that case, two of the Court’s liberal appointees voted with all the conservative justices to support the position endorsed by the Trump regime.
President Trump said Tuesday that he’s been at the Supreme Court “once before,” but he’s visited at least four times as president. He attended the formal investiture ceremonies for his first two nominees: Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.