Why a Famous Constitutional Law Scholar Says the Supreme Court’s Jerusalem Passport Decision Gives the President ‘Too Much Power Over Foreign Policy’ | TheBlaze.com

Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz said last week’s Supreme Court ruling that U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem cannot list Israel as their country of birth on their passports was “a misreading of the Constitution” and “a very dangerous, bad precedent,” because it gave the White House “too much power” over Congress in matters of foreign policy.

“To the extent that the president is emboldened by this decision to say: ‘I’m the one who makes foreign policy for the United States, not Congress,’ it can have terrible implications for world peace,” Dershowitz told Israel’s Channel 1 news in an interview broadcast Saturday night, characterizing the decision as “terrible.”

Why a Famous Constitutional Law Scholar Says the Supreme Court’s Jerusalem Passport Decision Gives the President ‘Too Much Power Over Foreign Policy’ | TheBlaze.com