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Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court On Grounds For Stripping U.S. Citizenship

"We have never read a statute to strip citizenship from someone who met the legal criteria for acquiring it," Justice Elena Kagan wrote. "We will not start now."
The Supreme Court says a lower court erred in its guidance to a jury about the standard for stripping a refugee of her American citizenship. / Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images

A naturalized U.S. citizen should not have been stripped of her citizenship for the sole reason that she lied to U.S. officials, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, vacating a lower court's decision. The plaintiff, an ethnic Serb who

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