Trump Plans to Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Birthright Case

(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump has declared his intention to attend Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing, where justices are set to weigh his administration's appeal in defense of an executive order targeting birthright citizenship — a move that could make him the first sitting American president ever to observe oral arguments at the nation's highest court.

Media reported Tuesday that no incumbent president has previously taken a seat in the chamber during live proceedings, lending the potential appearance an unprecedented historical dimension.

The executive order in question — inked on the opening day of Trump's second term — asserts that children born on US soil to parents residing in the country illegally or on a temporary basis would no longer be entitled to automatic citizenship, directly challenging decades of established interpretation of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Pressed by reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump left little doubt about his plans. "I'm going," he said, and when asked whether he would show up in person, replied: "I think so, I do believe."

Trump, who placed Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett on the bench, also weighed in on the court's internal ideological fault lines, remarking: "I love a few of them … I don't like some others."

Federal courts at the lower level have thus far blocked the citizenship restrictions from being enforced nationwide. A definitive ruling from the Supreme Court is anticipated before early summer.

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