Trump Rages Against SCOTUS After Justices Humiliate Him to His Face
The president is up bright and early to vent his anger after the disastrous hearing.
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Donald Trump has fired off a fuming early morning retort to the Supreme Court after the nation’s top judges tore apart one of his administration’s flagship policies.
“Kangaroo Court!!!” the president posted on Truth Social just after 7 a.m. Thursday.
The president sat for just 90 minutes of the nation's top justices eviscerating his administrations arguments before speeding away in his motorcade.
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Trump, 79, became the first sitting president to observe oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday as his administration attempted to defend his executive order to seek to restrict birthright citizenship.
While there were no cameras or videos in the country’s highest court, reports from inside the room said Trump was spotted with his eyes closed.
Donald Trump/Truth Social
But after less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own handpicked justices pick his arguments apart, the president abruptly left.
Daily Beast reporters witnessed the president’s motorcade leaving the Supreme Court to head down Independence Avenue at around 11.25 a.m.
A sketch artist captured the moment the president left the court room.
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White House lawyers have sought to challenge the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, which deems U.S. citizens to be “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
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It aims to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States if their parents are in the country illegally or on temporary visas.
Trump is attempting to end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S.
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Trump signed his order in January last year, and multiple lower courts have blocked it, so it has never been put into action.
A definitive ruling on the case is due sometime in early summer, and legal experts broadly expect justices to find against the administration.
If so, it would represent the second humiliating SCOTUS defeat for the president so far this year, after the nation’s top judges shut down huge portions of his flagship tariff policy earlier in February.
“We’re the only Country in the World Stupid enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” the president posted to Truth Social shortly after returning to the White House on Wednesday.
More than 30 countries around the world, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, automatically grant citizenship to children born on their soil.
He later followed up with a self-soothing, rambling 488-word rant on topics ranging from his love of law enforcement and his own funding measures to Joe Biden-era border policies and an imagined Democratic conspiracy to “DEFUND” police forces across the country.
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