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LetMyPeopleVote

(179,956 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:05 PM Wednesday

Trump bolts from Supreme Court early as conservative justices skeptical of his arguments

trump did not have fun at the part of the hearing he attended. It is not good form to leave a court proceeding before such proceeding is over. trump may be unhappy that the conservatives on SCOTUS were NOT buying Sauer's arguments

Trump bolts from Supreme Court early as conservative justices skeptical of his arguments

www.rawstory.com/trump-bolts-...
— Rollie ðŸ¤¬ (@architecturenerd.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T15:54:29.601Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bolts-from-scotus-early-as-conservative-justices-skeptical-on-citizenship-argument/

President Donald Trump reportedly left a Supreme Court hearing early after conservative Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and John Roberts seemed skeptical of ending birthright citizenship.

Shortly following Solicitor General John Sauer's arguments against birthright citizenship, Trump was seen leaving the court, according to NBC News and a pool report.

During oral arguments, Roberts suggested that the U.S. Constitution protected the notion of birthright citizenship.

"We're in a new world where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a US citizen," Sauer argued.

"It's a new world. It's the same Constitution," Roberts said.

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Trump bolts from Supreme Court early as conservative justices skeptical of his arguments (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday OP

Now I hope the gangster tells us all what he's been holding over their heads lindysalsagal Wednesday #1

TACO Don the Con purr-rat beauty Wednesday #2

I predict Trump will lose 6-3 or 7-2. yellowcanine Wednesday #3

He is such a spoiled brat. City Lights Wednesday #4

Not acting like someone expecting a win. Girard442 Wednesday #5

Trump has at best an average intellect and no particular curiosity in legal argument Prairie Gates Wednesday #6

Added to his SOTU Grievance List tonight leftstreet Wednesday #7

I dont watch these things and would not pretend to understand GusBob Wednesday #8

Yes, but there are subtleties. Ms. Toad Wednesday #13

I wonder if he filled his diaper Norbert Wednesday #9

Bwaaaaaah malaise Wednesday #10

So, his intimidation tactics didn't seem to be working?? Ferrets are Cool Wednesday #11

Courtroom sketch of President Trump listening to Ketanji Brown Jackson speak LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #12

He felt a tantrum building and had to vent his id on TS nt Javaman Wednesday #14

He'll say he got called away for some top secret clown business. But, he was flvegan Wednesday #15

'Fidgeting' Trump had to be moved during Supreme Court hearing: ACLU attorney LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #16

Trump made Supreme Court move his seat to right in front of the judges during birthright hearing, ACLU head says LetMyPeopleVote 5 hrs ago #17

lindysalsagal

(22,922 posts)

1. Now I hope the gangster tells us all what he's been holding over their heads

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:07 PM

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Gifts? Vacations? Free rent? Whatever it is, let's hear it. CLEAR THE AIR! Then let the resignations begin.

purr-rat beauty

(1,259 posts)

2. TACO Don the Con

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:11 PM

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yellowcanine

(36,795 posts)

3. I predict Trump will lose 6-3 or 7-2.

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:12 PM

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Might only be Thomas and Alito supporting Trump's position.

City Lights

(25,843 posts)

4. He is such a spoiled brat.

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:13 PM

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The walls of the WH will probably be covered in ketchup later today.

Girard442

(6,887 posts)

5. Not acting like someone expecting a win.

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

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Prairie Gates

(8,183 posts)

6. Trump has at best an average intellect and no particular curiosity in legal argument

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

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He was bored.

leftstreet

(40,730 posts)

7. Added to his SOTU Grievance List tonight

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:16 PM

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GusBob

(8,251 posts)

8. I dont watch these things and would not pretend to understand

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:16 PM

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But dont the judges always pick away at the arguments for both sides?

I mean are they questioning the other side now?

Ms. Toad

(38,652 posts)

13. Yes, but there are subtleties.

Reply to GusBob (Reply #8)

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:53 PM

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Sometimes what looks like picking away can also be asking helping questions. And sometimes after being picked at attorneys are so primed for argument that they respond to the helping questions as if it was another attack.

Not a Supreme Court justice, but I play one in Moot Court.

Norbert

(7,767 posts)

9. I wonder if he filled his diaper

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:17 PM

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Hearing his solicitor general misfire.

malaise

(296,199 posts)

10. Bwaaaaaah

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:19 PM

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I bet he wanted to speak and they told him NO!

And Sauer. Is clueless

Ferrets are Cool

(22,964 posts)

11. So, his intimidation tactics didn't seem to be working??

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:46 PM

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LetMyPeopleVote

(179,956 posts)

12. Courtroom sketch of President Trump listening to Ketanji Brown Jackson speak

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:48 PM

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Link to tweet

Javaman

(65,727 posts)

14. He felt a tantrum building and had to vent his id on TS nt

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 03:01 PM

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flvegan

(66,287 posts)

15. He'll say he got called away for some top secret clown business. But, he was

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Wed Apr 1, 2026, 03:10 PM

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about to present the bigly-est, strongest, most devastating argument in front of the court. So strong, they would have tears in their eyes and say "sir, we've had so many great argumenters and only the biggest cases, and you made the strongest argument ever heard by the court."

LetMyPeopleVote

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16. 'Fidgeting' Trump had to be moved during Supreme Court hearing: ACLU attorney

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Thu Apr 2, 2026, 08:34 PM

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trump is too stupid to understand the concepts being discussed. trump could understand that his attorney was NOT doing a good job and that the Justices were not buying what his attorney was trying to sell

Donald Trump's unprecedented appearance at the Supreme Court encompassed both a request that his seat be moved and the reported inability of the president to hold still while lawyers made their case before the nation's highest court.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-04-02T20:55:24Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fidget-supreme-court/

Appearing on MS NOW with host Jonathan Lemire, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero stated the president sat right in front of him, so he had a ringside seat to watch the president react to arguments over his attempt to override the 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship.....

“Could you see him from your vantage point? If so, what was he like?” MS NOW’s Lemire asked.

“He was six feet in front of me... he was literally right in front of me,” he recalled. “I was one row behind him, the Secret Service and then the president, so I could watch him entirely throughout the argument. Some of the press reports also got it wrong. Some of the press reports said that he left after the government had its case; the president sat through at least 10 to 15 minutes of our argument.”

“I could see him fidgeting in the chair. I literally could see him, he was literally in my line of vision,” he added. “And when our legal director, Cecillia Wang, made her opening statements, and then when she began to answer questions from the justices, you could see he started getting restless. His shoulders slumped a little bit.”

“I think he was there, clearly to intimidate the justices,” he added. “When they first had him, they sat him on the very end of the front row. And then the Commerce Secretary, Mr. [Howard] Lutnick got up and told the security guards that Mr. Trump would like to be seated more centrally in the courtroom. So they moved him literally right in front of us.”

“And then it was clear that he was endeavoring to put his thumb on the scale. He was endeavoring to glower at the justices to kind of intimidate them, almost defy them to rule against him,” he continued. “And what was remarkable, and this really is a testament that our system of checks and balances is working, that it's a coequal branch of government. Donald Trump is a guest in the Supreme Court. This is Chief Justice Roberts’ house. And there was not a mention, they did not miss a beat when he walked in, the courtroom got quiet. When he walked out, no one missed a beat.”

LetMyPeopleVote

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17. Trump made Supreme Court move his seat to right in front of the judges during birthright hearing, ACLU head says

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Fri Apr 3, 2026, 07:02 PM

5 hrs ago

President raged against the Supreme Court after the hearing, calling it a ‘KANGAROO COURT!!!’

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-supreme-court-seat-birthright-citizenship-b2951631.html

President Donald Trump reportedly demanded that his seat be moved at the Supreme Court so he could sit directly in front of the court's justices during his unprecedented visit to the court to witness the oral arguments in his birthright citizenship case this week.

Trump became the first president to attend a Supreme Court oral argument, a move that many critics took to be a naked attempt to intimidate the court into ruling in his favor. Early in his second term, Trump issued an executive order challenging the 14th Amendment, which establishes that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen.

ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero told MSNOW that Trump was initially seated at the end of the first row of seats, but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the court's security that the president wanted to be moved to the center, where he would face the justices.

“Then it was clear that he was endeavoring to put his thumb on the scale,” Romero said. "“He was endeavoring to glower at the justices to kind of intimidate them, almost defy them to rule against him.”

Romero said that rather than appearing intimidating, Trump spent the hearing fidgeting in his chair. He said after ACLU Legal Director Cecilia Wang began making her opening arguments that the president "started getting restless" and that his "shoulders slumped a little bit."

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