WASHINGTON (AP) β The Supreme Court is taking a second look at a dispute over the wording of U.S. passports for Americans born in Jerusalem.
The justices are hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by the parents of an American boy born in Jerusalem in 2002.
The family is invoking a law passed just before the boy’s birth to try to force the State Department to list his place of birth as Israel on his U.S. passport.
Administrations of both political parties have said the law is contrary to long-held U.S. policy that refuses to recognize any nation’s sovereignty over Jerusalem until the Israelis and Palestinians resolve the city’s status through negotiations.
Two years ago, the justices rejected lower court decisions that called the matter a political issue that should be resolved by Congress and the president without the help of the courts. The federal appeals court in Washington then struck down the law as an unconstitutional intrusion by Congress on the president’s authority over foreign affairs.
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