The heirs of art dealers whose property was taken in Nazi-era Germany cannot pursue lawsuits seeking compensation from the government of that country in the courts of the United States, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Feb. 3. The ruling was a victory for the Trump administration, now out of power, which had opposed that legal stance, arguing that the claims for damages should be pursued overseas and that letting the litigation proceed in the United States threatened to entangle the judiciary in sensitive foreign policy questions best left to the executive branch. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion in the case known as Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, vacating a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. At the same time the court also dealt with a companion case, also vacating a decision by the D.C. Circuit in Republic of Hungary v. Simon. Before World …