Foreword
Just two months before the end of President Barack Obama’s second term in office, Congress handed him the first — and most likely the last — veto of his presidency. The bill was the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism (JASTA), which allows victims of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil to sue foreign governments linked to the assaults. JASTA makes such lawsuits possible by expanding an exception to sovereign immunity, the legal principle that protects foreign countries from lawsuits in U.S. courts. The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 permits litigation against countries that have been designated “state sponsors of terrorism”…
