Senate overrides Obama’s veto on ‘Sue the Saudis’ 9/11 bill – IOTW Report

Senate overrides Obama’s veto on ‘Sue the Saudis’ 9/11 bill

The House is expected hold a veto override vote later on Wednesday.

RT: The US Senate voted 97-1 to override President Barack Obama’s veto of the bill that would allow Americans to potentially sue Saudi Arabia for 9/11. This is the first veto override during the Obama presidency.

Obama vetoed the bill last week, explaining that the“Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act” (JASTA) would erode the doctrine of sovereign immunity and expose the US to lawsuits around the world.

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The override vote was the “single most embarrassing thing the Senate has done” in over two decades, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday afternoon.  

 

h/t Abigail Adams

24 Comments on Senate overrides Obama’s veto on ‘Sue the Saudis’ 9/11 bill

  1. The override vote was the “single most embarrassing thing the Senate has done” in over two decades, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
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    Only for the long-legged macdaddy.

  2. I’m glad congress finally stood up on it’s hind legs and said enough. The dems that voted yes are, for the most part, only worried about re-election while most of the gop actually care about justice and giving the victims family their day in court. To @MM point about collecting, should they prove their civil case that one or more senior Saudi government officials assisting in the planning and execution of 9/11 and that other high government officials had knowledge and it nothing the judgement could be huge and the Saudi government has huge assets in the states that could be seized and sold in the settlement. Obama is right in one thing, the US should prepare it’s foreign service and DOJ for a raft of these things, some legit, most BS.

  3. Wow Republicans, see how easy it is to go against Obama.
    Thanks for the years of not standing in his way and fighting him while he destroys our freedoms and choices.
    You finally grew a pair when you saw Dems weren’t opposing you.

  4. Brown Eyed Girl – Well in his defense, his demented ass may have thought they were voting on
    Arabic food for lunch and decided against it. BTW, do you know anyone in Nevada who voted for him? I kept asking and no one will own up to it. His big headed boy, Rory, was fucking with the dials, that’s why.

  5. @MJA – I was living in Nevada when Reid got elected in 2004. Neither I nor anyone I knew voted for him. (I sound like Pauline Kael). I heard the same in 2010, and yet… Never underestimate the power of Democrat voting fraud.

  6. I smell a rat. Obunghole got together with the leaders of the uniparty. Told them to override his veto, thus giving the people the illusion that we have checks and balances that work. Plus, his musloid masters in the Middle East got to see that he is still their butt boy.

  7. MJA, there is still a big sign posted on our main drag, which is a state highway, by a local hotel owner: “Will Rogers never met Harry Reid”. He makes sure it’s maintained regularly. 😀

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