By: Elizabeth Fitch, Staff Writer President Trump has claimed that he is planning an executive order that would ultimately invalidate the safeguarded constitutional promise of birthright citizenship in the United States. This order would understandably create major competing concerns with the Constitution. The words of the 14thAmendment are rarely […]
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Summer SCOTUS Roundup: Materiality and Fraudulently Obtained Citizenship in Maslenjak v. United States
By Natalia Holliday, Web Editor Three years after the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s, Petitioner Divna Maslenjak and her non-party husband Ratko sought refugee status in the United States for fear of persecution from both sides of the conflict.[1] As Serbs living in Bosnia, Maslenjak held that Muslims […]
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