Kansas’ solicitor general on Monday called on a federal appeals court to reinstate the state’s law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship before they can register to vote, saying problems with how it was enforced during the three years it was in place are fixable.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit will hear arguments Monday over the constitutionality of a struck-down Kansas statute that required people to provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could register to vote.
Read moreAccusing him of misleading Congress and withholding key documents, House Democrats on Thursday tore into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreThe EU’s highest court backed the Netherlands on Tuesday for declining to issue national passports to foreign nationals who have not lived in the EU for 10 years.
Read moreThe father of a British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State group in Syria said his daughter’s citizenship should not be revoked and that she should return to the U.K. and be punished if it was determined she had committed a crime.
Read moreA federal judge has stripped U.S. citizenship from a 46-year-old native of what was once Yugoslavia, finding she concealed having joined a firing squad and executed six unarmed civilians and prisoners of war in the 1990s Balkan conflict.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington, D.C, ruled Monday he would not speed up a court fight over the fate of a former University of Alabama student who joined the Islamic State terrorist group and now wants to return to the United States.
Read moreThe German government plans to introduce legislation enabling authorities to strip Germans with dual nationality of their German citizenship if they fight for a terror group.
Read moreSaudi Arabia announced Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday blocked Texas officials from purging nearly 100,000 names from the voter rolls as part of a Republican-driven citizenship review plan unless they have been conclusively found to be ineligible to vote.
Read moreThe confirmation of Texas’ interim election chief appears doomed as all 12 Democrats in the Texas Senate will vote against him due to the embarrassing release of a flawed voter fraud list that resulted in three civil rights lawsuits and accusations of voter suppression
Read moreA federal judge denied the Trump administration’s request that he put off ruling on whether the government can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census until after the Supreme Court has decided a similar case.
Read moreAn Alabama man whose daughter joined the Islamic State terrorist group and now wants to return to America filed a federal lawsuit Thursday night challenging the Trump administration’s determination that she is not a U.S. citizen.
Read moreA federal judge in California ruled Thursday that a twin son of a gay married couple has been an American citizen since birth, handing a defeat to the U.S. government, which had granted the status only to his brother.
Read morePresident Trump’s demand that European countries take back their citizens who fought in Syria is receiving a mixed reaction, as nations pondered how to bring homegrown Islamic State extremists to trial.
Read moreOn the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Friday announcement that it will decide whether the 2020 census can ask a citizenship question, a federal judge in San Francisco blasted what he called Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ disingenuous reasoning for including it.
Read moreFighting to grill census takers on their citizenship, a move that experts say will hurt Democratic politics across the country for a decade, the Trump administration received word Friday that it can argue its case before the Supreme Court in April.
Read moreRepublican Texas Secretary of State David Whitley defended his release of a flawed list of 95,000 registered voters identified as possible noncitizens at his confirmation hearing Thursday, with critics opposing him over the embarrassing voting suppression claims that have resulted in the swift removal of tens of thousands of names from the list.
Read moreHarsh criticism is mounting against Texas Republicans’ announcement of 95,000 registered voters possibly not being citizens, as a group of naturalized citizens filed a lawsuit Saturday claiming voter suppression while county officials quickly ruled out 20,000 of the names.
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