Andrew Tutt on the Torres Case, State Sovereign Immunity, and Congress's War Powers
The Lawfare Podcast
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What Is Sovereign Immunity?
Sovereign immunity is just the principle that a person may not sue a state without the states consent. That is fundamentally what sovereign immunity is. In most situations, most of the time, if you want a sioue estate, you basically can't,. unless there's some specific provision that has mind exactly the parometers under which the state will allow you to sue it. And this principle even, you know, applies within states, suing cities and municipalities, for instance, under state law also; there's the principal filters down.
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