President Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia this week may go a little smoother thanks to Josh Earnest’s signal to reporters yesterday: “The whole notion of sovereign immunity is at stake,” Earnest told reporters Monday. “It could put the United States, and our taxpayers, and our service members and our diplomats at significant risk, if other countries were to adopt a similar law.” He added that it is “difficult to imagine a scenario in which the president would sign the bill as it’s currently drafted.” Saudi Arabia has threatened to pull three quarters of a trillion dollars out of American investments if a bipartisan, overwhelmingly popular bill passes that would enable 9/11 victim families to sue nations whose government officials sponsored terror attacks.  But it is not that threat in particular that worries Obama, but rather the specter of the United States being sued overseas for all kinds of actions, once...(Read Full Post)