Robert L. Magnuson, Personal Representative of Charles Vernon Myers v. James Baker, Secretary of State United States of America

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• noting that the statute was enacted without controversy in 1982 after a Congressman sent a question to the State Department and received a response stating that the State Department and INS would support legislation to make a passport evidence of citizenship
• noting that the statute was enacted without controversy in 1982 after a Congressman sent a question to the State Department and received a response stating that the State Department and INS would support legislation to make a passport evidence of citizenship
• construing the predecessor to § 340(h) to grant the naturalization courts “ the inherent authority to set aside [naturalization] judgments for any reason cognizable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6 0 .”
• “[T]hrough section 2705, Congress authorized passport holders to use the passport as conclusive proof of citizenship.”
• “8 U.S.C. § 1451(i) grants courts the inherent authority to set aside judgments for any reason cognizable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60[]”
• “Prior to the enactment of section 2705, only the Attorney General or a naturalization court could determine who is a citizen of the United States.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).