No Wonder Trump Stormed Out

 When I was listening to the arguments, Gorsuch was questioning Cecilia Ware, and later (I was in and out of my car), it Justice Sotomayor. Ware was treated respectfully by Gorsuch, and acquitted herself well, and went on to cite footnotes and page numbers in cases related to Wong Kim Ark. She repeatedly clarified the three groups excluded from immediate coverage by the 14th, which included native Americans.

The Solicitor General had not done as well before I’d tuned in:

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?

SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through. pic.twitter.com/9OxV0ZBlRi

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2026

This is how bad that was for Sauer:

Today Native Americans do NOT obtain birthright citizenship through the 14th Amendment. They only get citizenship through a 1924 law.

Gorsuch got the SG to admit that if the Trump admin's argument is right, Native Americans probably would have birthright citizenship under 14A. https://t.co/uSyPHmBpNP

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 1, 2026

Sauer really didn’t have a good day.

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

JOHN ROBERTS: It's a new world. It's the same Constitution. pic.twitter.com/D0YUGnTxqw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2026

CNN: We're told President Trump has just left the Supreme Court pic.twitter.com/IpOgrr1Zpw

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 1, 2026

Maybe he didn’t like the way they treated Sauer.

Ifill: Yes, President Trump did show up and sat discreetly in the back. I think it was a good lesson for him—there are just places in which he is very small. pic.twitter.com/fnP3nIOx0T

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 1, 2026

Or it was that.