Inside the Supreme Court as Trump faced the justices he's criticized

President Donald Trump is the first sitting president known to have attended a Supreme Court oral argument for the birthright citizenship case.

WASHINGTON — Usually, when a Supreme Court session starts, all eyes in the courtroom are on the mahogany bench behind which the justices sit.

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Not this time.

Abuzz with word that President Donald Trump would become the first sitting president known to have attended a Supreme Court oral argument, reporters and others in the courtroom were craning their necks in the opposite direction.