Gender-Based Citizenship Rules Unconstitutional, Supreme Court Says
- But top court won’t confer citizenship on man who brought case
- Ginsburg says differing rules ‘stunningly anachronistic’
Immigrants become American citizens during a naturalization ceremony on Sept. 17, 2015, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided that federal citizenship rules violate the Constitution by making it harder for some foreign-born children of American men to become citizens than children born abroad to American women.
The court, however, said it wouldn’t confer citizenship on the man who challenged the policy. The justices instead made it harder for the future offspring of American women to become citizens.