UNITED STATES–Caribbean American congresswoman condemns Trump’s attendance during oral arguments over birthright citizenship.

WASHINGTON, CMC – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to attend oral arguments before the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship.

Trump’s attendance at the hearing on Wednesday was an historic first for a sitting president, as the nine justices consider Trump’s executive order seeking to terminate birthright citizenship for Caribbean and other immigrants.

“Out of the ruins of the Civil War, birthright citizenship emerged as a foundation upon which this nation could rebuild stronger and more whole than before,” Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who represents the 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

“It has faced increasingly hackneyed legal challenges rooted in bigotry, fear, or both in the nearly two centuries since, and each time, it has endured,” added Clarke, who is also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. “And that is because the 14th Amendment’s (to the US Constitution) promise of citizenship to all those born on our soil is unambiguous.

“But Donald Trump has never believed the Constitution should come before his prejudices,” she continued. “His unprecedented decision to attend today’s oral arguments in the Supreme Court is nothing more than a deeply cheap intimidation tactic against a coequal branch of government, borne of the same desperation and disrespect for the law that have defined his presidency since day one.

After Wednesday’s hearing, Trump wrote on his Truth Social media site that the US is “stupid” to permit birthright citizenship.

“We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” he posted.

But the Washington-based Pew Research Center disputed that claim, stating that 32 other countries, most of them in the Western Hemisphere, have laws similar to the US’s, granting citizenship to children born in the country.

As part of his expansive immigration crackdown, Trump had signed, on the first day of his second term, an executive order to terminate birthright citizenship.