With respect to the proposal about amendments to the State Immunity Act, I should clarify that the proposed amendments would limit the possibility for lawsuits against foreign governments to instances of particularly egregious human rights cases. It's human rights violations that are often called “crimes of universal jurisdiction”, instances where someone has been subjected to torture, for instance, or has suffered crimes against humanity or war crimes in a foreign country. Those are crimes that within international law are now recognized to be the business of all courts in all lands, no matter where they happened.
On November 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.