President Donald Trump plans to attend Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, becoming the first sitting president to do so. He told reporters he has “listened to this argument for so long” and decided to attend.
The case centers on the question of birthright citizenship, an issue Trump previously addressed in 2018 with a suggestion to end it via executive order. At the time, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan stated the president “obviously cannot do that.”
Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship are part of a broader strategy to curb immigration in the United States. The Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the legality and scope of this long-standing constitutional principle.