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    Quasar FunkBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:50pm

    This Senate passed something unanimously? That’s almost less believable than the truther stuff.

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      special_k_sideQuasar Funk
      5/17/16 4:50pm

      Probably some nice kick-backs.

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      TemporaryrestrainingorderQuasar Funk
      5/17/16 4:51pm

      The sky is falling!

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    AllModConnedBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:50pm

    Do the victims of US war crimes in Viet Nam, Iraq, and countless other places get to sue the United States government for damages?

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      dubgasmAllModConned
      5/17/16 4:52pm

      We did that for freedom... or something. You got a problem with FREEDOM? #murica

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      AllModConneddubgasm
      5/17/16 4:54pm

      It’s probably Macca’s worst song.

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Brendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:51pm

    We demand the right to sue foreign governments in American courts, but we refuse to participate in the International Criminal Court.

    Stay classy, America.

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      AllModConnedTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      5/17/16 4:53pm

      Well done.

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      Mortal DictataTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      5/17/16 4:53pm

      The United States shouldn’t have to play fair. Otherwise they might actually start respecting other nations sovereignty.

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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:52pm

    Can they sue G.W. Bush for ignoring the memo?

    GIF
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      JohnnyBallfoot99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      5/17/16 4:54pm

      Would be nice to sue the true war criminals G.W. and Dickhead Cheney. American dreaming.

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      FrankloCampona99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      5/17/16 4:57pm

      Look I hate GWB as much as the next guy, but what action was he supposed to have taken in reaction to this that would have prevented 9/11?

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    hntergrenBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:54pm

    Wow—that’s huge. Saudi money is going to flood out of the U.S. so fast it’s going to make our heads spin. Obama is right, this is going to end up an empty symbolic gesture that will only really hurt us in the long run and I guarantee you there is no way they’re going to be able to attach a judgment to Saudi assets because they will get rid of them before they get the chance.

    When I worked on one of these cases as a federal judicial intern in law school I learned that the problem is even if you win, you can’t compel a sovereign state to adhere to the order—that judgment is useless if you can’t execute it. So the method is to execute against foreign assets held in the US. The case I helped draft an opinion on had to do with executing a judgment against Iran, almost impossible because there are no Iranian assets in the US, so the link to the foreign assets gets more and more tenuous. Essentially, the Plaintiffs were trying to seize money frozen under EU law owed to the National Iranian Oil Company by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, which then brings into play rules of international comity, because of the treaties we have concerning frozen foreign assets. Complete cluster fuck.

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      BobbyGrizhntergren
      5/17/16 4:58pm

      Finally, someone here that knows what they are talking about. This is all 100% correct.

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      NJRedmanhntergren
      5/17/16 5:29pm

      So it’s cool, and Saudis are above the law in this country. All those douches who speed around beverly hills are correct. They are better than us.

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    dsffdfkjBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 5:25pm

    If you ever wanted proof of the dogmatic response of individuals with strong left wing views, then read the comments below. Amazingly, the majority of them would rather point out the hypocrisy of America rather then the potential crimes committed by Saudia Arabia (if proven).

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      You might be wrong.dsffdfkj
      5/17/16 5:34pm

      You’re confusing the left with the centre.

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      dsffdfkjYou might be wrong.
      5/17/16 5:49pm

      The center where? The center of the Upper West Side of New York? These comments really sadden me deeply. Perhaps most of the authors are too young to remember September 11. Irrespective of that, the thought that so many people would take the side of Saudi Arabia over the US is outrageous. We will get another war soon. It will have domestic consequences and you won’t have time to sit in a Starbucks and type out blogs to nobody. You will get conservative real quick when it happens. When its your survival or someone else’s.

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:53pm

    This is pretty much a toothless law vis-a-vis 9/11, since the official investigation already concluded that the Saudi government was not responsible. There’s still hope that we can, and will, hold Canada accountable for giving us Ted Cruz, Justin Bieber, and Nickelback.

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      therealdealjohnnyscarecrow╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      5/17/16 4:59pm

      But you know who doesn’t care about congressional findings?

      Do you know who is going to determine liability and the other facts in this case?

      Jurors.

      I mean collecting it is another thing, and it will take a while for Saudi Arabia to pull all their assets, but the complaint that is filed will also include an injunction which will be heard very quickly.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boketherealdealjohnnyscarecrow
      5/17/16 5:06pm

      American jurors? Oh, boy, I’m off to file my own lawsuit.

      They made me miss a job interview and subequent job offer because of the 9/11 attack. Those are real damages, not like all those other charlatans and their fake grievances.

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 4:51pm

    Well, hell! In the spirit of ‘American Vengeance’, let’s also:

    Sue Germany, Italy, Japan, and the other Axis powers, for all the pew-pew-pew war stuff

    Sue Korea and Vietnam for the same reasons

    Sue Austria, for giving birth to that Archduke Frank Ferdinando dude who got plugged back in 1914

    Sue England. #remembervalleyforgeyo

    Sue Jim Jones’ estate, for ruining Kool aid for everybody

    Sue Christopher Nolan, for making the Batman movie that was showing in Colorado where those poor people were massacred

    Fuck it! Let's just sue EVERYFUCKINGBODY who ever caused us harm! #PAYUPBITCHES

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      Sid and FinancyIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      5/17/16 4:54pm

      Don’t be stupid.

      Pew-pew-pew only applies to lasers, and there were no laser weapons in WWII.

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      NoyoureignorantSid and Financy
      5/17/16 5:07pm

      Uh not according to the very good Captain America documentary!

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    ALbluedotBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 5:23pm

    Just a thought, doesn't the law protecting foreign countries from legal action here, have a counterpart in most other countries? Did we just open the floodgates for lawsuits against America for our actions abroad?

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      You might be wrong.ALbluedot
      5/17/16 5:36pm

      No. American law doesn’t affect other countries’ laws directly.

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      SrynersonYou might be wrong.
      5/17/16 7:26pm

      It doesn’t affect it directly, but international sovereign immunity is usually done on a reciprocal basis: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/opi…

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    Kamai - Looming and InevitableBrendan O'Connor
    5/17/16 5:01pm

    Yeah, okay. Good luck with that.

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      BobbyGrizKamai - Looming and Inevitable
      5/17/16 5:04pm

      Says the person who has no idea how law works... Do some research.

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      Kamai - Looming and InevitableBobbyGriz
      5/17/16 5:08pm

      Wow, what an informative and substantive comment. You sure put me in my place. Feel proud as you ride off into the sunset, internet warrior.

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