The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit against Russia, Wikileaks, President Trump’s campaign, and others in New York. The complaint features many of the claims we have been reading in the news about the hacking of the DNC’s emails, their publication on Wikileaks, the Trump campaign’s participation, and so forth. My views on President Trump and his administration are well-known to regular readers. I’m not going to comment on the merits of the claims or on the political wisdom of the suit. But I think it is worth it to address, briefly and in a preliminary way, the jurisdictional issues raised by the claim against Russia and instrumentalities of the Russian state. The basic rule is that Russia is immune from the jurisdiction…

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