Supreme Court hears high-profile fight over Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship
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Supreme Court is seen as the moon rises Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) 2026-04-01T04:03:52Z WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
Trump plans to be in attendance .
In arguments Wednesday, the justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions , one of several courts that have blocked them.
They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.
A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.
Trump will be the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.
The case frames another test of his assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court that has largely ruled in the president’s favor, but with some notable exceptions that Trump has responded to with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.
The birthright citizenship order , which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown .
Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling.
The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.
Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs’ decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.
He issued a preemptive broadside against the court on Sunday on his Truth Social. “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!,” the president wrote. “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!” Trump’s order would upend the longstanding view that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment , ratified in 1868, and federal law since 1940 confer citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.
The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizen
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