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Long-awaited decision here<\/a> finding the President to have exclusive recognition power, trumping Congress\u2019 attempt to require birthplace of US citizens born in Jerusalem to be recorded as \u201cIsrael\u201d on US passports issued to them.<\/p>\n

1. Phew. Who knows what the response would have been in the Middle East if the Court had come out the other way. Maybe nothing, but it\u2019s obviously still a tinderbox in which little sparks can lead to firestorms.<\/p>\n

2. Though the President wins, Kennedy\u2019s opinion cuts back on Curtiss-Wright<\/em>, dismissing its broad characterization of executive power as dicta.<\/p>\n

“In a world that is ever more compressed and interdependent,\u00a0it is essential the congressional role in foreign\u00a0affairs be understood and respected. For it is Congress\u00a0that makes laws, and in countless ways its laws will and\u00a0should shape the Nation\u2019s course. The Executive is not\u00a0free from the ordinary controls and checks of Congress\u00a0merely because foreign affairs are at issue. See, e.g.,\u00a0Medell\u00edn v. Texas, 552 U. S. 491, 523\u2013532 (2008); Youngstown,\u00a0343 U. S., at 589; Little v. Barreme, 2 Cranch 170,\u00a0177\u2013179 (1804); Glennon, Two Views of Presidential Foreign\u00a0Affairs Power: Little v. Barreme or Curtiss-Wright?\u00a013 Yale J. Int\u2019l L. 5, 19\u201320 (1988); cf. Dames & Moore v.\u00a0Regan, 453 U. S. 654, 680\u2013681 (1981). It is not for the\u00a0President alone to determine the whole content of the\u00a0Nation\u2019s foreign policy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The era of government lawyers playing the \u201cCurtiss-Wright, so I\u2019m right\u201d card is officially over.<\/p>\n

3. There\u2019s a lot of \u201cone voice\u201d talk in Kennedy\u2019s opinion, trumpeting the functional virtues of presidential control (see especially the bottom of p. 11). That\u2019s disappointing to those of us looking for a move away from exceptional approaches to resolving foreign affairs disputes. Together with last year\u2019s flame out in the big Treaty Power case, maybe the Court is having second thoughts about the normalization project. This was a bad vehicle for advancing that agenda (see thought #1), but now that the decision is on the books, it will retard it in more favorable ones.<\/p>\n

But there are developments beyond the Court\u2019s control at work on the ground. Remember the huge flap over the Tom Cotton letter to Iranian leaders earlier this spring. So much for \u201cone voice.\u201d Things are anything but normal when it comes to separation of powers respecting foreign affairs. Zivotofsky\u00a0<\/em>notwithstanding, we\u2019re not going back to an old world in which Presidents had centralized control of the nation\u2019s engagement with the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long-awaited decision here finding the President to have exclusive recognition power, trumping Congress\u2019 attempt to require birthplace of US citizens born in Jerusalem to be recorded as \u201cIsrael\u201d on US passports issued to them. 1. Phew. Who knows what the response would have been in the Middle East if the Court had come out the other way. Maybe nothing, but it\u2019s obviously still a tinderbox in which little sparks can lead to firestorms. 2. Though the President wins, Kennedy\u2019s opinion cuts back on Curtiss-Wright, dismissing its broad characterization of executive power as dicta. “In a world that is ever more compressed and interdependent,\u00a0it is essential the congressional role in foreign\u00a0affairs be understood and respected. For it is Congress\u00a0that makes laws, and in countless ways its laws will and\u00a0should shape the Nation\u2019s course. The Executive is not\u00a0free from the ordinary controls and checks of Congress\u00a0merely because foreign affairs are at issue. See, e.g.,\u00a0Medell\u00edn v. Texas, 552 U. S. 491, 523\u2013532 (2008); Youngstown,\u00a0343 U. S., at 589; Little v. Barreme, 2 Cranch 170,\u00a0177\u2013179 (1804); Glennon, Two Views …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"audience":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-commentary"],"yoast_head":"\r\nThree Quick Thoughts of Zivotofsky - Voices at Temple<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zivotofsky notwithstanding, we\u2019re not going back to an old world in which Presidents had centralized control of the nation\u2019s engagement with the world.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/voices\/three-quick-thoughts-of-zivotofsky\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Quick Thoughts of Zivotofsky - Voices at Temple\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zivotofsky notwithstanding, we\u2019re not going back to an old world in which Presidents had centralized control of the nation\u2019s engagement with the world.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/voices\/three-quick-thoughts-of-zivotofsky\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Voices at Temple\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-08T14:37:47+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-07-28T15:23:00+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/voices\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/SCOTUS_building.png\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"840\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"560\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter J. 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