"Denaturalization's Missing Limit" out in Northwestern University Law Review Online

The final version of "Denaturalization's Missing Limit," my latest article with Cassandra Burke Robertson, is out in the Northwestern University Law Review Online. Here is the abstract: Civil denaturalization has become a bipartisan tool of punishment and deterrence. The government has used the civil justice system to strip citizenship from naturalized citizens convicted of serious crimes— including sex offenders—to "send a loud message" and "hold accountable" those it considers undesirable, circumventing the ten-year statute of limitations Congress imposed on criminal naturalization fraud. The Trump Administration has gone further, elevating denaturalization to one of the Department of Justice's top five enforcement priorities and directing attorneys to "maximally pursue" every viable cas