Sex and Citizenship at the Court, Again
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-20-2011
Language
en-US
Abstract
AMID THE flood of decisions handed down in the last two weeks of its last term, the Supreme Court announced a tie vote in Flores-Villar v. United States—a constitutional challenge to a federal law that discriminates between unmarried American fathers and mothers in their ability to secure citizenship for their foreign-born children. As a result of this split decision, the lower court’s ruling upholding of the law remains in place. (Only eight justices voted. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself because of previous involvement in the case as U.S. Solicitor General.)
Recommended Citation
Kristin Collins & Linda K. Kerber,
Sex and Citizenship at the Court, Again
,
in
Dissent Magazine
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/11
Publisher URL
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sex-and-citizenship-at-the-court-again
