Supreme Court confronts a trove of constitutional questions in case involving passport law

If landmark Supreme Court rulings sometimes come in unlikely cases, the justices? consideration Monday of a law that gives 50,000 Americans born in Jerusalem the option of listing ?Israel? as their birthplace seems to fit the bill.

In a little more than an hour, lawyers and the justices debated whether the president has sole authority to guide the nation?s foreign policy, whether Congress is an equal ? or perhaps superior? partner and whether the Supreme Court even has a role to play in sorting it out.

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