From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Supreme Court gets set to hear what could be a landmark case on two big questions,

whether President Trump can end birthright citizenship by executive order, and whether

federal judges are overstepping when they issue national

injunctions to stop that and many other government policies. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the

Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and

editorial board member Manet Uquay Berruua. On his first day in office, President Trump

issued an executive order intending to reinterpret a longstanding consensus on the citizenship

clause of the 14th Amendment. Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment begins this way,

quote, all persons born or naturalized

in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,

unquote. With certain narrow exceptions, that has long been taken a mandate, birthright

citizenship as a right of anyone born in the territory of the United States.

President Trump now wants to deny that citizenship to children whose parents aren't legally

and permanently in the country, including illegal aliens and also those visiting the U.S.

on student visas or tourist visas.

The order by President Trump is on hold after judges issued a series

of nationwide injunctions to block it. But on Thursday, that and the merits of the case may be

up for grabs at the Supreme Court. Let's start with Donald Trump at the Oval Office last month

giving his view of this appeal. I am so happy.

I think the case has been so misunderstood.

That case, birthright citizenship is about slavery.

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