Saudi lobbyists plot new push against 9/11 bill [Trent Lott sighting]

Politico ^ | September 26, 2016 | Isaac Arnsdorf and Seung Min Kim

[C19fan]

Saudi Arabia is mounting a last-ditch campaign to scuttle legislation allowing families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to sue the kingdom — and they're enlisting major American companies to make an economic case against the bill. General Electric, Dow Chemical, Boeing and Chevron are among the corporate titans that have weighed in against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, which passed both chambers unanimously and was vetoed on Friday, according to people familiar with the effort. The companies are acting quietly to avoid the perception of opposing victims of terrorism, but they're responding to Saudi arguments that their own corporate assets in the kingdom could be at risk if the law takes effect.

[C19fan]

Of course Lindsey Graham and Bob Corker are carrying water for the Saudis and Obama. And Inside the Beltway types wonder why people are flocking to Trump.

[Rurudyne]

While I don’t care if someone sues Saudi Arabia, I still do not think it is proper, either domestically or internationally, to permit civil liability without responsibility.

In the case of the commission of any crime that should mean no civil liability without actual criminal conviction.

Moreover, we need to eliminate punitive and non-monetary awards from our domestic civil liabilities laws.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Flimsey Grahamnesty and Bob Corker along with former Senator Trent Lott are traitors to the citizens of the US.

[W.]

Sure are a lot of Retreadpublicans popping up out of the mushroom patch.

[jalisco555]

Trent Lott is the living personification of everything that went wrong with the Republican congress after 1994.