[Alberta's Child]

Read the article. Nobody is denying anyone a passport. The issue under dispute involved how the passports were written.

If I was a U.S. citizen born in East Berlin in the 1950s, I wonder how the U.S. State Department would list my place of birth if I went and got a passport for the first time today?

[SvenMagnussen]

If I was a U.S. citizen born in East Berlin in the 1950s, I wonder how the U.S. State Department would list my place of birth if I went and got a passport for the first time today?

The section of the law the petitioner and SCOTUS found unconstitutional stated the State Department will print Jerusalem, Israel as the place of birth for a US citizen if the US citizen requested it. Without a request from the US citizen, the State Department printed the place of birth as Jerusalem. It's an attack on an individual's liberty and free speech.

SEC. 214. UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.

(d) Record of Place of Birth as Israel for Passport Purposes.--For purposes of the registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary shall, upon the request of the citizen or the citizen's legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel.