Supreme Court liberals side with Clarence Thomas on Taliban suicide bomber lawsuit, 3 others dissent

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow a lawsuit by U.S. Army veteran Winston Hencely, injured in a 2016 Taliban suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by liberal and conservative justices, rejected the 'battlefield preemption' theory, enabling Hencely to pursue state-law claims against military contractor Fluor Corporation. Justices Alito, Roberts, and Kavanaugh dissented.