On April 1, during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Trump administration's executive order restricting birthright citizenship, a majority of justices expressed clear skepticism toward the administration's attempt to reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. President Trump personally attended the hearing at the Supreme Court that day, becoming the first sitting president to attend an oral argument there. The administration argued that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders should not automatically acquire U.S. citizenship, attempting to rely on the 1898 "Lochner v. New York" case (note: likely referring to *United States v. Wong Kim Ark*, commonly known as the "Gold Dust Case") to narrow the scope of citizenship to only those whose parents were "lawfully settled" in the U.S. However, Chief Justice Roberts, along with justices Gorsuch and Barrett—both appointed by Trump—questioned this reasoning, calling the cited precedent tenuous and warning that adopting a "settled" standard would lead to significant practical chaos. From the tone of the proceedings, it appears the Supreme Court is reluctant to overturn a constitutional interpretation that has stood for over a century. The final ruling is expected this summer (possibly in June).
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