Olivia of Troye - Saturday Covfefe: The Pressure Test [View all]

This week wasn’t random. It was pressure on citizenship, on trust, on institutions, and on the rule of law itself.

1. Citizenship Isn’t Supposed to Be Conditional…

🇺🇸 Citizenship on the Line (NY Times)

The U.S. Department of Justice has identified 384 naturalized Americans it wants to strip of citizenship, calling it the first wave of a broader push. That alone marks a major shift.

Denaturalization is legal, but historically rare and tightly handled. These cases require the government to prove, in court, that someone obtained citizenship through fraud or serious misconduct, using a very high standard of evidence. What’s different now is scale.

The administration is expanding these cases beyond immigration specialists and assigning them to prosecutors across 39 U.S. attorney offices, while the Department of Homeland Security increases referrals into the pipeline. In practical terms, that turns a careful legal process into something far more systematized and faster. For context: from 1990 to 2017, the U.S. averaged about 11 denaturalization cases per year. Now, hundreds are being queued at once.

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