Perez v. Brownell
United States Supreme Court
356 U.S. 44 (1958)
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Perez (defendant), a native-born U.S. citizen who spent most of his life in Mexico, voted in a Mexican political election in 1946, triggering a federal statute providing that voting in a foreign political election causes loss of U.S. citizenship. The lower courts found Perez had lost his citizenship under this provision, and he sought review in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Whether Congress may withdraw a person's U.S. citizenship because he voluntarily voted in a foreign election.