President Donald Trump will attend the Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday regarding his executive order on birthright citizenship.

“I’m going,” Trump said on Tuesday when a reporter mentioned the upcoming argument the next day. Later on Tuesday, the White House released the president’s schedule for Wednesday, confirming he will attend the oral arguments at the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. ET.

The nation’s highest court will hear the case, known as Trump v. Barbara, on April 1. The case is about whether his Executive Order 14160, which excludes the children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatically gaining U.S. citizenship at birth, is constitutional. The order has been blocked in the lower courts.

The oral argument is expected to focus on the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

Since the Supreme Court’s landmark 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which interpreted the clause, the federal government has recognized that almost all persons born in the United States are U.S. citizens at birth.

During a press gaggle at the White House on March 31, a reporter mentioned the upcoming argument, and Trump said, “I’m going because I have listened to this argument for so long.”

Trump then appeared to reference the adoption of the 14th Amendment, which he said was about granting citizenship to former slaves.

“And if you take a look at when it was filed—all of this legislation, all of this, everything having to do with birthright citizenship—it was at the end of the Civil War.”

It was “not about Chinese billionaires, who are billionaires from other countries, who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case; children becoming American citizens,” he said.

Trump’s mention of Chinese billionaires appears to refer to evidence that Chinese nationals are using surrogacy and birth tourism to secure U.S. citizenship for their children.

“Our country is being scammed,” Trump said.

“People are making a living, a big living, getting hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars, from bringing people in, and saying, congratulations, your whole family is going to be a citizen of the United States of America,” he said.

Asked which justices at the hearing he will be listening for the most closely, Trump said, “I like a few of them; I don’t like some others.”

Reuters contributed to this report.

This article by Matthew Vadum appeared March 31, 2026, in The Epoch Times. It was updated April 1, 2026.