Late in the day on Friday, September 23rd, President Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a bill that was passed unanimously by the Senate and by the House of Representatives without a single objection. Given the measure’s unanimous passage by both the Senate and House, and following nearly seven years of… Continue reading Response to the Message of the President Accompanying His Veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act
Last time I checked, we still have a President, democracy and pledge allegiance to the United States of America. And, no, we don’t live in Saudi Arabia. As odd as this may sound, it seems that our politicians and now many fortune 500 companies may have forgotten these basic principles and are being lobbied heavily… Continue reading Statement from the National Chair for 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism THIS IS STILL AMERICA
JASTA provides no basis for a claim against individual foreign officials, who retain immunity from suit under common law doctrines. JASTA’s immunity provision concerns only the immunity of foreign states under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), and has nothing to do with the immunity of individual foreign officials or employees. As the Supreme Court… Continue reading JASTA POSES NO RISK OF SUITS AGAINST OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL
Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2016 – We are outraged and dismayed at the President’s veto of JASTA and the unconvincing and unsupportable reasons that he offers as explanation. No matter how much the Saudi lobbying and propaganda machine may argue otherwise, JASTA is a narrowly drawn statute that restores longstanding legal principles that have enjoyed bipartisan support… Continue reading Statement regarding President Obama’s veto of the anti-terrorism bill JASTA
Yesterday afternoon, reports surfaced that the European Union presented a letter to the State Department expressing concerns about the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a measure unanimously passed by both chambers of Congress earlier this year after nearly seven years of careful deliberation and refinement. The letter, which was somehow obtained and distributed… Continue reading Response on Behalf of 9/11 Families and Victims to the European Union’s Letter of Concern Regarding JASTA
ALL 9/11 CHILDREN: Please read and sign below: Dear Speaker Ryan, Leader McCarthy, and Whip Scalise, We, 9/11 children whose parents were brutally murdered in the worst terrorist attack on American soil, respectfully ask you to put S. 2040, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”) on the calendar for a vote when Congress… Continue reading An Open Letter to Congress from the 9/11 Children for Justice Against Terrorism
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