SCOTUS: Lower Court Must Decide Whether Jerusalem Part of Israel on Passports
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.
Federal courts will decide whether U.S. passports must declare Jerusalem part of Israel. In Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s conclusion that this issue must be resolved in the political arena between President Obama and Congress.
American passports record “Place of Birth” as either “City, Nation” or “State, Nation.” (For example, mine reads, “Indiana, U.S.A.”) Because of the struggles involving Jerusalem in world politics, modern passports for Americans born in that city say only “Jerusalem” without identifying the nation in […]

