The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared open to upholding a federal law that allows lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization seeking damages from terror attacks.
During oral arguments in two cases, justices repeatedly suggested that they owed deference to Congress’ decision in 2019 to pass a law stating that the two organizations could be subject to lawsuits in the United States for activities such as processing payments for the families of individuals who attacked Americans or maintaining an office in New York.
The Supreme Court is considering whether to overturn a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that found the law violated the Constitution because those activities did not do enough to tie the groups to the United States courts.
