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Related: About this forumSupreme Court strikes down ‘born in Israel’ passport law
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the president alone has the power to recognize foreign nations, and it struck down as unconstitutional a congressional attempt to allow Americans born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace on passports.
President Obama and President George W. Bush had said the 2002 passport law embraces the interpretation that Jerusalem belongs to Israel, something the executive branch has long held should be settled by the parties in the Mideast. They refused to let the State Department honor such requests.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said Congress has a role in managing the nations foreign affairs but not in recognizing foreign nations and governments.
Recognition is a topic on which the nation must speak with one voice, wrote Kennedy. That voice must be the Presidents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-strikes-down-born-in-jerusalem-passport-law/2015/06/08/19562bb2-d71d-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html
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(30,099 posts)azurnoir
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(30,099 posts)executive privilege, and Kennedy being the least. Look back at how he voted on some of Bush's
over reach and you see a pattern. Those in dissent, that they did not defer to the executive
branch is telling as hell of their political bias on this case.
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(45,850 posts)WASHINGTON A long list of major American Jewish organizations, many of which had filed amicus briefs supporting the inclusion of the word Israel on passports for US citizens born in Jerusalem, expressed dismay at Mondays Supreme Court ruling that American citizens born in Jerusalem may only list their birthplace as Jerusalem, rather than as Jerusalem, Israel.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group representing 51 organizations, issued a statement saying that the organizations leaders were deeply concerned by the ruling.
We do not believe that Jerusalem-born American citizens having Israel on their passport would impinge on future negotiations or compromise the role of the United States, argued Chairman Stephen Greenberg and Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Malcolm Hoenlein. Tens of thousands of Americans are affected by this decision.
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, described the US governments approach regarding Jerusalem as hypocritical and myopic.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-jewish-groups-slam-administrations-hypocritical-view-on-jerusalem/