Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump's Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink

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The Supreme Court is set to consider a pillar of President Trump’s immigration crackdown: limiting U.S. citizenship. Trump seems to be bracing for defeat.

Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump’s Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink
President fumes at justices as they prepare to take up his next big case
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1:16 PM · Mar 29, 2026

The Supreme Court is set to consider a pillar of President Trump’s immigration crackdown: limiting U.S. citizenship. Trump seems to be bracing for defeat.

— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) 2026-03-29T17:16:50.234804Z

Birthright Citizenship Case Pushes Trump’s Relationship With Supreme Court to Brink

President fumes at justices as they prepare to take up his next big case

By James Romoser
March 29, 2026 5:00 am ET


Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett during a State of the Union address.
Justices listened to President Trump’s State of the Union address in February. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON—President Trump’s relationship with the Supreme Court has never been more toxic. Now, it risks getting worse.

After the court’s rejection of Trump’s tariffs provoked a new level of hostility from the president, the justices are set to consider a pillar of his immigration crackdown: limiting U.S. citizenship. Trump seems to be bracing for defeat.

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[Mysterian]

1. This case will show us who are the true traitors to the constitution

on the Corrupt Court.

[GiqueCee]

2. Trump's problem is...

... that he thinks he owns the justices he appointed. That's not how it works, Cupcake. Someone worthy of the presidency – Which you demonstrably are not – would know that.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. 'Alarm bells' ring as Trump resurrects racist arguments in major legal case: experts

The 14th Amendment is clear to me and the arguments being raised by trump are weak. The authority cited by trump's DOJ is really weak.

'Alarm bells' ring as Trump resurrects racist arguments in major legal case: experts

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-30T14:30:15Z

https://www.rawstory.com/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-2676636588

The Trump administration is relying on legal arguments developed by Confederate officers and 19th-century xenophobes to challenge birthright citizenship in a Supreme Court case expected to be decided by summer, drawing criticism from legal scholars who say the administration is recycling deeply racist historical precedents.

The administration's Supreme Court brief cites Alexander Porter Morse, a Confederate officer and Louisiana attorney who advocated for legalized segregation in the 1896 case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine that propped up Jim Crow laws, reported the Washington Post.

"The Trump administration has tapped Morse as an authority in its push to upend long-settled law that virtually everyone born in the United States is a citizen," the Post reported. "Over a century ago, Morse was among a trio of thinkers who spearheaded a failed effort — steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism — to erase birthright citizenship. The Trump administration is reviving their arguments to make its case today, some legal scholars say."

The administration also relies on arguments from Francis Wharton, a legal scholar who wrote that Chinese immigrants were insufficiently "civilized," and George D. Collins, a San Francisco attorney whose career ended in scandal.

Lucy Salyer, a University of New Hampshire history professor, expressed concern about the administration's approach. "If you know the history and the broader context of what they were trying to achieve, it does ring alarm bells," she said.