“If you take the position that not answering about the speeding ticket or the nickname is enough to subjectbr that person to denaturalization,” he said, “the government will have the opportunity to denaturalize anyone they want.”br The Trump administration has sought to strip the citizenship of a convicted terrorist, and President Trump has saidbr that loss of citizenship may be a fit punishment for burning the American flag.br “This may be a simple-minded question,” Justice Ginsburg said, “but how can an immaterial statement procure naturalization?”br “That’s such a shorter statement of my question,” Justice Kagan said.br Justice Stephen G. Breyer said it was “rather surprisingbr that the government of the United States thinks” that the naturalization laws should be “interpreted in a way that would throw into doubt the citizenship of vast percentages of all naturalized citizens.”br Chief Justice Roberts added that the government’s position would give prosecutors extraordinary power.