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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 25, 2026.
In a 6-3 emergency order, the justices lifted a ruling that found the expanded system broke federal privacy laws. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned eligible voters could be burdened or disenfranchised.
A bench led by Justice Vikram Nath set aside Gauhati High Court orders and sent the citizenship cases back to tribunals, holding that declaring someone a foreigner must follow a 'fair, lawful and reasonable' process.
The denaturalization push represents the latest escalation in the administration's targeting of the legal immigration system, expanding beyond traditional deportation efforts.
President seeks state-by-state voter eligibility lists to combat virtually nonexistent noncitizen voting, even as Justice Department acknowledges they would be unreliable.
Government lawyer warns no 'responsible state' should use presidential order's voter eligibility data to update rolls.
The targeted Americans are accused of misdeeds that can qualify them to lose citizenship, but denaturalization has rarely been invoked in the past.
The denaturalization effort focuses on immigrants accused of fraud, marking a rare invocation of a seldom-used legal process.
Justice Department assigns denaturalization cases to regular prosecutors in unprecedented effort to strip U.S. citizenship from naturalized Americans.
The citizenship documentation requirement sailed through the House but cannot overcome a Democratic filibuster — and election officials warn it would disenfranchise millions before the 2026 midterms.
Republicans launched days of around-the-clock Senate floor speeches on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register and photo ID to cast any ballot, though the bill remains likely to fail a 60-vote filibuster threshold.