09-11-2016, 03:47 PM
Obama's veto has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the policy. It is just about the fact that we are in bed with the House of Saud.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/apr/20/supreme-court-ruling-iran-terror-victims-families
The supreme court on Wednesday upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of the 1983 marine barracks bombing in Beirut and other terrorist attacks to collect nearly $2bn in frozen Iranian funds.
The court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in favor of more than 1,300 relatives of the 241 US service members who died in the Beirut bombing and victims of other attacks that courts have linked to Iran.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion for the court rejecting efforts by Iran’s central bank to try to stave off court orders that would allow the relatives to be paid for their losses. The money is sitting in a federal court trust account.
Iran’s Bank Markazi complained that Congress was intruding into the business of federal courts when it passed a 2012 law that specifically directs that the banks’ assets in the United States be turned over to the families. Barack Obama issued an executive order earlier in 2012 freezing the Iranian central bank’s assets in the United States.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/apr/20/supreme-court-ruling-iran-terror-victims-families
The supreme court on Wednesday upheld a judgment allowing families of victims of the 1983 marine barracks bombing in Beirut and other terrorist attacks to collect nearly $2bn in frozen Iranian funds.
The court on Wednesday ruled 6-2 in favor of more than 1,300 relatives of the 241 US service members who died in the Beirut bombing and victims of other attacks that courts have linked to Iran.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion for the court rejecting efforts by Iran’s central bank to try to stave off court orders that would allow the relatives to be paid for their losses. The money is sitting in a federal court trust account.
Iran’s Bank Markazi complained that Congress was intruding into the business of federal courts when it passed a 2012 law that specifically directs that the banks’ assets in the United States be turned over to the families. Barack Obama issued an executive order earlier in 2012 freezing the Iranian central bank’s assets in the United States.
