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Answer by user6726 for Does Congress have the authority to grant citizenship...
A law which punishes a specific person – a "bill of attainder"– is unconstitutional. Private laws, which benefit an individual, are legal. An example is Private Law 112-1, which saysNotwithstanding any...
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The US House Committee on Appropriations just passed a resolution to grant citizenship to Charlie Gard, a British infant. Of course, the resolution is only part of a much larger bill that would need to...
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