&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "‘I’m going’: Trump hints he could become first sitting US president to attend Supreme Court hearing")
US President Donald Trump has said he may personally attend a hearing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 1), where justices are set to consider arguments over his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. If he attends the hearing, Trump would become the first sitting US president to attend oral arguments at the court, a move that would break with long-standing convention separating the executive and judicial branches.
“I’m going. I think so. I do believe,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday (March 31), signalling his intention to be present when the case is heard. The court is due to examine the administration’s attempt to revive the order after several lower courts blocked it. Judges previously ruled that the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees citizenship to nearly all individuals born on American soil, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
Trump, however, has argued that the amendment was originally intended to grant citizenship to the children of formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and should not extend to children of undocumented migrants or those on temporary visas.
“Everything having to do with birthright citizenship… it had to do with the babies of slaves,” he said, according to Politico, adding that it was not meant to cover wealthy foreign nationals seeking US citizenship for their children.
Shortly after returning to the White House last year, Trump signed an executive order aiming to deny federal benefits, including passports, to children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants and individuals on limited-duration visas. The administration maintains that such benefits incentivise illegal immigration and so-called “birth tourism”.
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Trump and his visits to the apex court
Trump has visited the Supreme Court on multiple occasions during his presidency, including for the investiture ceremonies of his nominees Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. He also attended after the death of retired Justice John Paul Stevens in 2019, and during the funeral of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020. He did not attend the formal installation of his nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, whose investiture was delayed until the presidency of Joe Biden due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
