Trump Attacks Supreme Court at 1AM Over Birthright Citizenship

President Donald Trump, 79, posted a hostile message on Truth Social just before 1 a.m. ET on Monday, attacking the Supreme Court as it deliberates his executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship. Trump suggested the justices should have watched Fox News host Mark Levin’s program arguing the 14th Amendment does not grant citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants, calling birthright citizenship a “money making HOAX” and demanding the Court use “COMMON SENSE FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY.”

Trump also criticized the Supreme Court’s past decisions on tariffs, claiming the justices “failed miserably” and cost the nation “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebates,” warning them not to repeat such mistakes. He stated the country “can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care,” signaling his expectation that the justices should rule in his favor on the birthright citizenship case.

The rant followed Trump’s attendance at oral arguments on April 1, where he left early after the justices, including three he appointed, raised substantial skepticism about his administration’s constitutional arguments. Chief Justice John Roberts directly challenged Solicitor General D. John Sauer’s claim that the framers could not have foreseen modern circumstances, stating simply: “It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.” Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed whether Native American children should be denied birthright citizenship, exposing the order’s problematic scope.

Every lower federal court has struck down Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order as unconstitutional. The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, explicitly grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Trump’s late-night attack demonstrates his pattern of attempting to pressure and intimidate the judiciary when his legal arguments fail, disregarding institutional norms and constitutional independence that safeguard democratic governance.

(Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/panicked-trump-79-rages-supreme-085111208.html)