MBS, promotion in hand, now has sovereign immunity.
—ostensibly on charges of corruption but also to compel their loyalty to the existing Royal Family power structure. Still, it’s conceivable that incipient challenges still loom, which this move would preempt.But a more likely rationale for promoting the Crown Prince now is spelled out in a story by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in the.
district judge in that case asked the Biden Administration to weigh in on whether MBS should be granted “sovereign immunity”—a concept, dating back to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, that, among other things, protects heads of state from being sued or tried in other countries. The Biden administration was given until Oct. 3—this Monday—to reply.It is debatable whether a defense minister and deputy prime minister—the posts that MBS held until this week—could be considered a head of state.