Trump to attend Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship - and everyone’s thinking the same thing | indy100

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Donald Trump will continue his fight to end birthright citizenship on Wednesday, when he is expected to attend oral arguments in a hearing of the Supreme Court – a first for a sitting US president.

Found under the 14th amendment to the constitution, birthright citizenship concerns the first section which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Speaking to NBC News’ Meet the Press in December 2024, a month before his inauguration, Trump said “we have to end it”.

“Do you know, if somebody sets a foot – just a foot, one foot – on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America.

“We’re gonna end that, because it’s ridiculous … if we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix Covid first, to be honest with you,” he said.

Sure enough, on the first day of his second presidential term, Trump signed an executive order on “protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship”, which included a block on citizenship for children born to parents in the US illegally or temporarily.

Lower courts went on to strike down the order.

And now, amid reports that Trump is set to attend oral arguments, X/Twitter users have been thinking the same thing:

“Genuinely what are the odds he starts yelling at the Justices,” asked Polling USA:

Podcaster Jim Stewartson wrote: “He thinks by sitting there scowling at them, they will do what he wants”:

“He thinks he’s gonna scare them or some stupid s***,” commented Jo Carducci, known online as JoJoFromJerz:

And Wu Tang is for the Children branded the move “insane” and said the move is “presumably to try to intimidate the justices”:

The White House has been approached by indy100 for comment.

The Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship comes a day after a Washington D.C. judge ordered that construction on Trump’s controversial White House ballroom must be paused until authorisation for it to continue is given by Congress.

“Basically he’s saying, I need congressional approval. And he’s so wrong,” Trump said.

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