President Trump may attend SCOTUS oral arguments on birthright citizenship

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he plans to attend the U.S. Supreme Court case Wednesday over who is entitled to birthright citizenship.

Justices will hear arguments in Trump v. Barbara, who is challenging his 2025 executive order ending the practice of birthright citizenship.

Trump issued the order upon taking office, saying that birthright citizenship, a product of the 14th Amendment that has been widely interpreted as guaranteeing citizenship to anyone born in the United States, has been widely abused by foreigners, particularly illegal immigrants.

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President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House. Trump said he would attend Wednesday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on a case centered on a citizen’s birthright. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The case was taken to the High Court after several judges blocked the order from taking effect.

The Trump administration has argued that the 14th Amendment was originally intended to grant citizenship to former slaves, not the children of illegal immigrants or temporary visitors.

“It’s not about Chinese billionaires or billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case, or 10 children who become American citizens,” Trump told Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “It was about slaves. And if you look closely, slaves. We’re talking about Civil War slaves.”

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Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, in support of birthright citizenship. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty)

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1898 after the Supreme Court ruled that children born on American soil are automatically granted citizenship, with some exceptions, such as the children of diplomats.

Trump noted that people and companies, many from China, have taken advantage of the birth tourism industry by bringing people to the United States with the intention of giving birth, so that their children can obtain American citizenship and thus reap the benefits.

“People are making a living, a lot of them, making hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars, by bringing people in and saying, ‘congratulations, your whole family is going to become citizens of the United States of America,'” he said. “It’s not for that. It wasn’t for billionaires to bring in people or families, but it was for the children of slaves.”

Critics warn that if birthright were ended, it could create a new class of U.S.-born people who would not be recognized as citizens, while supporters say it would incentivize illegal immigration and exploitation.

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“It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” Trump said. “It’s been handled very poorly by legal scholars over the years. If you look at the original birthright citizenship documents, they all took place right after the Civil War. The reason was it had to do with slave babies…our country is being scammed, we’re catching all these people.”