President Donald Trump said on March 31 that he will attend the Supreme Court oral argument the next day regarding his executive order on birthright citizenship.
The nation’s highest court will hear the case, known as Trump v. Barbara, on April 1. The case is about whether his Executive Order 14160, which excludes the children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatically gaining U.S. citizenship at birth, is constitutional. The order has been blocked in the lower courts.
During a press gaggle at the White House on March 31, a reporter mentioned the upcoming argument, and Trump said, “I’m going because I have listened to this argument for so long.”
Trump then appeared to reference the adoption of the 14th Amendment, which he said was about granting citizenship to former slaves.
“And if you take a look at when it was filed—all of this legislation, all of this, everything having to do with birthright citizenship—it was at the end of the Civil War.”
It was “not about Chinese billionaires, who are billionaires from other countries, who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case; children becoming American citizens,” he said.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
