Cato’s prior brief in this case established that this Court should interpret 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (the “Alien Tort Statute” or “ATS”) in accordance with the con-temporary understanding of the law of nations in 1789 when the statute was enacted. The jurisdictional grant of a statute is a fundamentally political decision and should not be amended by the courts. The law of nations as of 1789 provided a methodology for determining the parties that could be sued for violations of the law of nations (which did not include corporations), and it also provides a methodology for understanding the extraterritorial scope of the statute.