SCOTUS BLOG
| Trump Attends Supreme Court Oral Arguments, Then Leaves an Hour In |
Ann E. Marimow, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, and Miriam Jordan, The New York Times  |
| President Donald Trump on Wednesday became “the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the high court … listening as the justices across the ideological spectrum questioned his efforts to strictly limit birthright citizenship,” according to The New York Times. “Many other presidents, including John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln and Richard Nixon, have made appearances in the courtroom. But they all did so as lawyers arguing cases, before or after serving in the White House, according to Clare Cushman, a historian with the Supreme Court Historical Society.” The Times reported that “[m]any people outside the court expressed strong opposition to the president’s presence,” describing attendance as a “strong-arming tactic.” |
