House votes to let 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia

The Senate has already passed it unanimously. The Congress will likely override any veto.

Don't US companies outsource jobs willingly?

You can get collections on assets inside the US. But this is basically impeding the Executive's control of foreign policy which is what the Constitution gives it. It also will create a precedent for foreign countries to pass similar laws against US citizens and companies which is a can of worms no one wants to open. It may also violate agreements we previously signed with other countries (and approved by the congress at the time).

This bill just says that a US court has to consider such cases. Such cases being related to terrorism that occurs on US soil.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/204...

Saudi Arabia will of course respond to any such suit in the context of their relationship with the United States, but you can sort of predict that US actions related to enforcing the outcomes of cases will be rather restrained.

See also: Lockerbie Bombings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

It's not hard or even unusual to sue a country. Do you have any idea how many lawsuits are currently underway involving the United States of America? It's probably half a million cases.

There is no such thing as "stealing manufacturing jobs", at least not in the criminal sense of the word.

If such a thing existed, then anytime a teacher grades on a curve, the students with the lowest scores should be able to sue the top performers for "stealing good grades" from them.

> How exactly do you sue a country?

Quite easily, presuming the court in which you are suing (or the government directing that court) allows it.

Enforcing a judgement is an entirely separate manner, OTOH.

And with wikileaks they have a convenient way to release that info while on the surface maintaining a friendly relationship with the USA.

Not sure what you mean about Malcolm X though. What are the chickens here?

US House of Representatives, not the UK House of Commons. But... yeah, same question applies :-)