President Donald Trump speaks at the Future Investment Initiative Summit in Miami on March 27, 2026.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to hear oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday on whether his executive order can overturn long-standing guarantees of constitutional citizenship for people born in the United States, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
Trump will be the first sitting president to appear before the Supreme Court.
The White House on Tuesday night announced Trump’s full-day schedule for Wednesday, which included attending arguments in the birthright citizenship case known as Trump v. Barbara.
“I’m going,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
If President Trump’s executive order is upheld, tens of thousands of babies will be born in the United States every month to illegal immigrants and non-citizen visitors.
On his first day back at the White House on January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that, 30 days after the effective date, infants born in the United States will not be entitled to citizenship documents if their parents are illegal immigrants or workers.
The order contradicted more than 150 years of legal interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the country, regardless of the status of their parents.
That amendment reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and all persons to whom the following conditions apply.”
That jurisdiction rests with U.S. citizens. ”
Multiple federal judges have ruled that President Trump’s order is unconstitutional. Two federal circuit courts then upheld injunctions blocking the orders from taking effect.
