Analysis: Supreme Court Won’t Save Law to Put ‘Israel’ on Passports of Jerusalem Residents
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U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Photo: Wiki Commons.
The Jerusalem Post – The US District of Columbia Appeals Court ruling on Tuesday declared a 2002 federal law unconstitutional that directed the State Department to let US citizens born in Jerusalem register their birthplace as “Israel” on their passports.
The same appeals court tried to stop the march toward placing the word “Israel” on passports once before, and in 2011, the US Supreme Court swept in highly unexpectedly to put the train back on track.
