Perez v. Brownell
Case Date: 05/04/2025
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Perez v. Brownell, 356 U.S. 44 (1958), was a United States Supreme Court decision which affirmed Congress's right to revoke United States citizenship as a result of a citizen's voluntary performance of specified actions, even in the absence of any intent or desire on the person's part to lose his or her citizenship. Specifically, the Supreme Court upheld an act of Congress which provided for revocation of citizenship as a consequence of voting in a foreign election.
The precedent established by this case was repudiated nine years later in Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), in which the Supreme Court — holding that the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause guaranteed a citizen's right to keep his or her citizenship — overturned the same law that it had upheld in the Perez case.
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