By: David Zvirman, Staff Writer Over the past few months, the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) decision to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 2020 census sparked a lot of debate.[1] This debate culminated on January 15, 2019, when New York District Judge Jesse Furman struck down the DOC’s […]
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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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