Gender-Based Citizenship Law Gets U.S. Supreme Court Review
Newly naturalized citizens participate in a ceremony on June 2, 2016, at George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a provision in federal law that makes it harder for some foreign-born children of American men to become citizens than children born abroad to American women.
The nation’s highest court agreed to hear the Obama administration’s appeal of a ruling that conferred citizenship on Luis Ramon Morales-Santana, a man born in the Dominican Republic who was facing deportation after being convicted of a 1995 robbery and attempted murder in New York.