Court Opinion

ID: 9446887
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:20:37.449878+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:49.053157
License: Public Domain

POPE, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
As I understand United States v. Min-ker, 350 U.S. 179, 76 S.Ct. 281, 287, 100 L.Ed. 185, it decided that in view of the considerations of policy therein mentioned, it must be held that Congress had carefully differentiated between “a witness who is not the subject of an investigation and the person who is.” Accordingly, it was stated that Congress had “not provided with sufficient clarity that the subpoena power granted by § 235 (a) extends over persons who are the subject of denaturalization investigations.” While appellant here was not the subject of that kind of an investigation, he was clearly the subject of a similar investigation, namely, one looking to deportation. But the policy which was the basis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Minker is one which has to do with deportation as well as denaturalization. Said the Court, 350 U.S. at page 188, 76 S.Ct. at page 287: “These considerations of policy, which determined the Court’s decisions in requiring judicial as against administrative adjudication of the issue of citizenship in a deportation proceeding and those defining the heavy criterion of proof to be exacted by the lower courts from the Government before decreeing denaturalization, are important guides in reaching decision here.”
In my view, the rationale which led to the decision in Minker is equally controlling here. This means that § 235(a), (Title 8 U.S.C.A. § 1225(a)), does not authorize the order appealed from.