Trump says he will attend oral arguments in his “make Dred Scott great again” lawsuit
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Whether Vincenzo Pentangeli will also be in attendance was not clear at press time:
President Donald Trump said he plans to be in attendance when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday on his birthright citizenship executive order.
“I’m going,” Trump told reporters Tuesday, before adding a bit more tentatively, “I think so. I do believe.”
The presence of a sitting president at the high court during oral arguments would be a first, according to historians. But Trump has previously flirted with attending oral arguments before reversing course. Last October, he said he planned to attend arguments for his so-called Liberation Day tariffs, but he later backed down. He wound up losing that case, 6-3.
Asked about the president’s plans, a White House spokesperson referred back to his comments to journalists. A Supreme Court spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump repeated his argument that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment was only intended to give citizenship to the children of former slaves and was not intended to apply to virtually anyone born on U.S. soil. The majority of constitutional scholars and legal precedents reject his view.
Or, yes, maybe he’ll back off again, although my guess is that he follows through this time.
Either way, what he’s trying to communicate by even suggesting he’ll be there is not subtle:
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) Mar 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM