Schumer Backs Off Supporting Plan to Strip U.S. Citizenship

Agence France-Presse
May 6, 2010

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A key US Senator who indicated tentative, early support for stripping US nationals tied to overseas terrorist groups of their citizenship now firmly opposes the plan, his office said Wednesday.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer had said Tuesday that he had not reviewed the controversial proposal from Independent Senator Joe Lieberman but “that sounds like something I’d support.”

“Having learned about the proposal, the senator believes it would be found unconstitutional and would also be ineffective in this context,” Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.

Lieberman had floated his plan amid a debate sparked by the arrest and interrogation of a Pakistani-born US citizen suspected of being behind the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.

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