Fordham Law School Professor Thomas Lee spoke to Agence France Presse about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a law that would have allowed U.S. citizens born in the disputed city of Jerusalem to record their country of birth as Israel.
Tom Lee, an expert in both constitutional and international law at Fordham Law School, sided with the majority, arguing that Congress’s attempt to pass a law on passports was intended to force Obama’s hand.
“Passports aren’t vanity plates for citizens to make political statements facilitated by Congress about sovereignty claims in foreign lands,” he argued.
Read the entire Agence France Presse article here.
