Obama vetoes 9/11 bill

[Lyin' Steve]

This may be the dumbest bill of all time.  I wish Obama had a Tinder-esque super-veto that he could use once a year to stop particularly stupid bills without any override.

We have international courts for international legal action... domestic courts have absolutely no sovereignty over foreign nations or foreign nationals, so any ruling would be useless except for propaganda and stirring-up-sh**t purposes... but as others have pointed out, we're also basically rubber-stamping any other country that decides to take this same route to create propaganda and stir up sh**t against us.

[Lyin' Steve]

There's such a strange dynamic going on here. It seems like opposition to this bill is unanimous: Obama, the CIA, the New York Times, a bunch of former US national security experts, the Kuwaiti government, and many others have all put out statements in opposition to JASTA. Yet in spite of this wall of opposition, the entire Senate remains completely united in passing it. What's going on here?


Also here is Cornyn's argument for passing JASTA and it's pretty convincing.

Yeah, I'm largely convinced by Cornyn. Obama goofed here.

Cornyn conflates this bill with FSIA, which holds foreign nations responsible for their diplomatically-immune citizens on U.S. soil.  Suing Saudi Arabia because one of its diplomats stole a purse is entirely different from suing Saudi Arabia because you suspect that someone in the Saudi government was connected to terrorism on American soil and therefore the whole government is responsible.