Trump makes history as first sitting president to attend Supreme Court hearing
Donald Trump attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court on his executive order to end birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) – President Donald Trump attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court on his executive order to end birthright citizenship, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to attend a Supreme Court hearing.
The court heard arguments over the constitutionality of Trump’s order to strip automatic citizenship from children born in the United States to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas. Trump left after his solicitor general, John Sauer, completed his presentation and did not stay for arguments by ACLU attorney Cecillia Wang, who is defending birthright citizenship.
Sauer argued that “unrestricted birthright citizenship contradicts the practice of the overwhelming majority of modern nations,” acts as a “pull factor for illegal immigration” and encourages “birth tourism.”
Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, pushed back, questioning how common birth tourism actually is and asking whether the administration was seeking to expand existing exceptions to birthright citizenship “to a whole class of illegal aliens” — a move he described as “quirky.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh questioned the relevance of other countries’ policies, saying: “We try to interpret American law with American precedent based on American history.”
Wang told the justices that rejecting birthright citizenship would call into question “the citizenship of millions of Americans past, present and future.” The 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are citizens.
The Trump administration argues that those in the country illegally or on temporary visas are not subject to that jurisdiction — a definition the Supreme Court rejected in a landmark 1898 case involving a man born in San Francisco to Chinese parents.
Lower courts have blocked Trump’s executive order as unconstitutional. Several conservative justices appeared skeptical of the administration’s position. A decision is expected by late June or early July. If the court rules against ending birthright citizenship, it would be the second major legal setback for Trump this term, following the Supreme Court’s invalidation of most of his global tariffs in February.
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