In its lawsuit against Wikileaks, Russia, and others, the Democratic National Committee has effected service on Russia under 28 U.S.C. § 1608(a)(4), slowest and most solemn method of service in foreign sovereign cases, and the only one that is more or less guaranteed to work. By diplomatic note, Russia returned the documents that the United States embassy had sent to the Russian foreign ministry by diplomatic note. The service itself is not legally interesting or exceptional, though I think it does tend to illustrate the lack of a strong reason to stretch the construction of other provisions of § 1608. More interesting is Russia’s assertion of immunity, which it filed, apparently with the help of an unnamed US-trained lawyer. In my prior post, I…