Hi and welcome to Amicus, Slate's Legal Podcast.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's Supreme Court Correspondent.

And on this episode of the show, we're going to do a deep dive into one of the cases the

Supreme Court heard just this week, a case with a 12-year-old boy at Center.

Manathems of Atopski was born to American parents in Jerusalem back in 2002.

Earlier that same year, Congress passed a law that let US citizens in that scenario have

Israel listed as their place of birth on their passports.

You see, since 1948, American policy has held that since the status of Jerusalem is disputed,

it takes no position on whether Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

If you're born in Jerusalem, your passport says only Jerusalem.

And so President Bush attached a signing statement to that 2002 law saying he just would

not enforce the passport provision because it's his job, not Congress's, to administer foreign

affairs.

Manathems parents wanted Jerusalem Israel on his passport, but his passport was printed

with only Jerusalem as his place of birth.

That same year, in 2002, Manathems parents filed a suit against the State Department,

and since then, this case has gone up and down through the court system, lending for

the second time this week at the US Supreme Court.

Arguing the case for the Zyvitovskis was Aliza Lewin.

Her law partner and father, Nathan Lewin, argued the case the first time it came to the

court back in 2012.

And Monday was Aliza's turn.

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