Trump Signals Iran Exit as SCOTUS Eyes Birthright Citizenship Challenge

President Trump plans to address the nation tonight at 9 p.m. ET on the U.S. conflict with Iran. He signaled a withdrawal from the region within two to three weeks and appeared to step back from his most aggressive threats about the Strait of Hormuz, telling oil-dependent nations they will have to secure the waterway themselves.

Two developments are hitting the Treasure Coast from different directions: an emerging exit from the Iran conflict and a landmark Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship. Thousands of immigrant families in St. Lucie and Indian River counties, where agricultural and service industries employ large numbers of workers on temporary visas or with undocumented status, could face a future in which children born here are no longer automatically U.S. citizens.

Trump was scheduled to be present at the Supreme Court on Wednesday as justices heard oral arguments in a case challenging the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship guarantee — a first for any sitting president at oral arguments. On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order denying automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents who entered illegally or hold temporary legal status. The American Civil Liberties Union was expected to argue that the men who drafted the 14th Amendment intended citizenship to follow the child, not the parent's immigration status.

The Iran conflict is already hitting Treasure Coast residents at the pump. Gasoline prices have climbed above $4 a gallon nationally — the highest in more than three years — with diesel rising even more sharply, driving up the cost of goods shipped by truck or rail across the country, officials said. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects the conflict will push U.S. inflation back above four percent, a threshold that would further strain household budgets already stretched by years of elevated prices.

On separate fronts Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Trump's executive order to defund public broadcasters violated the First Amendment, declaring the order "unlawful and unenforceable." Another federal judge ordered a halt to construction of a $300 million White House ballroom — at least until Congress authorizes it — granting a preliminary injunction to the National Trust for Historic Preservation while staying enforcement for 14 days to allow a government appeal.

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