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Originally Posted by Shoonra
The citation for the case is U.S. v. Fox (ND Tex 1991) 766 F.Supp 569. And it didn't involve using a passport as a substitute for a DL. It involved the question of whether possession of one of those homebrew "Kingdom of Heaven" passports was a criminal offense as a "counterfeit foreign passport" (the court decided that, since the homebrew passport didn't resemble a real one and was completely ineffectual, having it was no more a criminal offense than having Monopoly money). Incidentally, Fox was a Canadian, but at the time a Canadian passport was not required to travel into the US.
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Without Prejudice.
In the Fox case, it was ruled that since the passport did not purport to be a U.S. passport when it wasnt then the relevant USC statute was not violated and that 'Fox' did no wrong. Furthermore, the Court overseeing did not make hold the his passport or travel document to be invalid. Whether he was Canadian or US-ian or not is perhaps irrelvant. Truth is, he did not have any document on himself purporting to be a US-ian or Canadian. In other words, Robert d/b/a Robert Fox did no wrong. They tried to get him for pretending to be a diplomat. The US Courts even indicated something along the lines that they had no knowledge of a Kingdom of Heaven.
For all you folks thinking the United States to be a "Christian country" or even an "Israel" well...maybe think just how much of the proverbial farm that you're willing to bet on that.