Moreover, if an American citizen born in Jerusalem prior to May 1948 (or perhaps even East Jerusalem in 1949-67) were to get their passport renewed, the law in question in Zivotofsky v.Kerry would ...

While the plaintiff, Zivotofsky, may have the better of the arguments on the merits in the Jerusalem passport case, there are unexamined questions about his Art. III standing. After all, it is not ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared as divided over a 12-year-old Jerusalem native's passport Monday as Israel and the Palestinian Authority are on the broader issues dividing the Middle East.

Court strikes down ‘born in Jerusalem’ passport law Carolyn Kaster / AP In this Nov. 3, 2014, file photo, Menachem Zivotofsky and his father Ari Zivotofsky speaks to media outside the Supreme ...

When the passport dispute came to them in 2011, they ruled 8-1 that it was not a political question best left to the other two branches to fight out. As a result, it's back. "What a great case not ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A lawyer for a boy born in Jerusalem whose parents want Israel listed as the birthplace on his U.S. passport tried mightily this week to make a Supreme Court hearing mainly ...

Passport law on Jerusalem unconstitutional, federal appeals court says. Associated Press. Published July 23, 2013 2:48pm EDT | Updated December 21, 2015 12:21am EST. Facebook; ...

In Jerusalem passport case, Supreme Court bolsters Obama’s foreign policy power. Menachem Zivotofsky with his father, Ari Zivotofsky, outside the Supreme Court in 2014.

His parents sued to have their son’s birth nation listed as Israel on his passport in accordance with a 2002 law instructing the secretary of state to, upon request, allow parents of Jerusalem ...

Middle Eastern politics infused the Supreme Court’s arguments Monday over a disputed law that would allow Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their U.S. passports.

The Supreme Court is taking its second look at a dispute over the wording of U.S. passports for Americans born in Jerusalem, a case with potential foreign policy implications in the volatile ...

Congress has for years tried to push administrations of both parties to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The U.S. has never enforced the passport law, which has been on the books since 2002.