Month: September 2016

Congress didn’t go far enough in overriding Barack Obama’s veto of JASTA

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Note, September 30, 2016: This post has been updated in line.

On learning that Congress had overridden Barack Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a law limiting sovereign immunity for Saudi Arabia against lawsuits in connection with the 9/11 attacks,[1] I wondered how one defends sovereign immunity.[2] Read more →

  1. [1]Ted Barrett, “Congress overrides Obama’s veto of 9/11 bill,” CNN, September 28, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/28/news/override-obama-veto-911-bill/index.html↩
  2. [2]David Benfell, “‘Sovereign immunity’ threatened as 9/11 victims may now sue Saudi Arabia,” (Almost) Daily Bullshit, September 28, 2016, https://parts-unknown.org/reading/2016/09/28/sovereign-immunity-threatened-as-911-victims-may-now-sue-saudi-arabia-daily-bullshit-september-27-28-2016/↩