by Misty Severi
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will attend a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on the consitutionality of his Birthright Citizenship executive order.
The case centers on Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as excluding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal migrants and tourists.
The president imposed the order last year as a means to deter pregnant tourists from having their babies in the United States and illegal migrants to stop using the method as a way to remain in the country.
Trump said he will go to the Supreme Court to “just sit there and listen, because I have listened to this argument for so long.”
“This is not about Chinese billionaires or billionaires from other countries, who all of a sudden have 75 children or 59 children or 10 children becoming American citizens,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “This was about slaves. If you take a look, we’re talking about slaves from the Civil War … It was about the protection of the babies of slaves.”
Trump said similar comments on Truth Social on Monday, “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America. It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES! We are the only Country in the World that dignifies this subject with even discussion. Look at the dates of this long ago legislation – THE EXACT END OF THE CIVIL WAR! The World is getting rich selling citizenships to our Country, while at the same time laughing at how STUPID our U.S. Court System has become (TARIFFS!). “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”
The president’s attendance at the Supreme Court will mark Trump’s first time attending a Supreme Court hearing during his second term.
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Misty Severi is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
