President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will “probably” lose the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court after a recent string of court losses in federal court.Trump made the notable admission nearly two months after the federal government defended the president’s 2025 executive order seeking to reestablish birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment as applying only to children born to at least one U.S. citizen or permanent resident on American soil. Trump personally attended oral arguments in the case.“Our Country will lose the Birthright Citizenship Case … because our Court System is RIGGED, no different than our Political System is RIGGED, and the people of our Country know it,” he wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post about lawfare against his administration.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on birthright citizenship in the next month before the nine justices go on summer recess.
The Trump administration was dealt setbacks on Friday in several legal cases, including one concerning a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that was temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The fund was created by the Department of Justice as part of a settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service.