PS Im in Baltimore. I aint getting in til 1230 earliest. So no show.

Last year, the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Fuld v. PLO overruled the Second Circuit’s earlier determination that Congress’s authorizing of personal jurisdiction against the PA and PLO violated the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.

If all that sounds procedurally confusing and substantively abstruse, you can only imagine how the plaintiffs felt. But the resolution of their ordeal has delivered an important message: the American people will not let terrorists use our own Constitution against us.

In Fuld, the Supreme Court concluded that the Fifth Amendment affords Congress considerable latitude to give federal courts jurisdiction over cases implicating national security and foreign policy. As Congress took pains to point out, the PLO and PA had effectively consented to jurisdiction by maintaining a diplomatic presence in the United States, and by continuing to make special payments to families of convicted terrorists, even after Congress made clear that doing so would carry ...