DNC Sues Trump Campaign, Russia, WikiLeaks Over 2016 Election

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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-22/dnc-lawsuit-against-trump-and-russia-hacking-misses-the-mark

Quote:Whether the theory that Trump colluded is true makes no difference; the theory doesn’t work as a lawsuit. But, as my inbox suggests, the point of the suit isn’t to win. It’s to stir up the base.

Which is too bad.

Because if you subtract the political defendants and consider only the lawsuit against Russia, the DNC could potentially be on to something both interesting and important. So far, no foreign government has been successfully sued for hacking U.S. computers. But this time the evidence just might be strong enough to give a federal court jurisdiction.

The essential claim is that by hacking the DNC’s computers, Russia committed a trespass in the U.S. The problem, of course, is that Russia is generally protected by sovereign immunity. But the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act includes an exception for torts committed on U.S. soil. The idea that hacking falls within the exception has lately been raised in the law reviews but has yet to be tested successfully in court.

Good read on how this COULD have been used to help set an important legal precedent but instead is aimed at just getting donations for the midterms.