Afroyim v. Rusk

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1967-05-29

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Me. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, born in Poland in 1893, immigrated to this country in 1912 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1926. He went to Israel in 1950, and in 1951 he voluntarily voted in an election for the Israeli Knesset, the legislative body of Israel. In 1960, when he applied for renewal of his United States passport, the Department of State refused to gra…

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