WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 13, 2011. An evenly-split Supreme Court today affirmed a lower court’s ruling upholding a law that unfairly discriminates against fathers, by establishing different citizenship criteria for children born abroad to an unmarried U.S. citizen depending on the sex of the citizen parent.
In a one-sentence order without written opinion, the Court upheld a law, originally enacted in 1940, which states that if the child’s mother is a U.S. citizen, the child will automatically be…
