{"id":38144,"date":"2014-11-06T17:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=38144"},"modified":"2014-11-12T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T16:36:30","slug":"jerusalem-passport-case-divides-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/jerusalem-passport-case-divides-court\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jerusalem Passport Case Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/supreme_slide-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"supreme_slide\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-post-38144 wp-image-38146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/supreme_slide-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/supreme_slide.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We often think of the Supreme Court as the arbiter of distinctly national disputes \u2013 for example, whether the Affordable Care Act can require all of us to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, or whether public universities can consider race as one factor in their admissions process.  But yesterday the Court waded into a dispute that is playing out on a global stage:  whether a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem can choose to have his place of birth listed as \u201cIsrael\u201d on his passport.  The answer, according to the U.S. government, could have a potentially explosive impact on the U.S.\u2019s role in the Middle East peace process, and possibly even on the peace process itself.  Let\u2019s talk about Zivotofsky v. Kerry and yesterday\u2019s argument in Plain English.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1948, the United States has declined to recognize any country as having sovereignty over the holy city of Jerusalem.  But in 2002, Congress passed a law that instructed the Secretary of State, upon request, to list the birthplace of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem as \u201cIsrael\u201d on his passport.  President George W. Bush signed the law, but at the same time he issued a statement \u2013 known as a \u201csigning statement\u201d \u2013 in which he protested that the law \u201cinterferes with the President\u2019s constitutional authority to conduct the Nation\u2019s foreign affairs and to supervise the . . . executive branch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The child at the heart of today\u2019s case, Menachem Zivotofsky, was born in Jerusalem in 2002 to U.S.-citizen parents.  When his parents applied for a passport for him, they asked \u2013 consistent with the then-new law \u2014 to have his place of birth be designated as \u201cIsrael\u201d on his passport.  When the State Department refused, the family brought this lawsuit, which has already been to the Supreme Court once before.  Two years ago, the Justices decided that the lawsuit could continue; it was not, they concluded, the kind of \u201cpolitical question\u201d that courts should leave to the president and Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2014\/11\/jerusalem-passport-case-divides-court-in-plain-english\/\">full story at SCOTUSblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think of the Supreme Court as the arbiter of distinctly national disputes \u2013 for example, whether the Affordable Care Act can require all of us to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, or whether public universities can consider race as one factor in their admissions process. 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