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trolling role of the political branches is both necessary and proper. Measures taken by the political branches to control the disposition of foreign-state property, including blocking specific foreign-state assets or making them available for attachment, have never been rejected as invasions upon the Article III judicial power. Cf. Dames & Moore v. Regan, 453 U.S. 654, 674. Notably, before enactment of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the Executive regularly made casespecific determinations whether sovereign immunity should be recognized, and courts accepted those determinations as binding. See, e.g., Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 541 U.S. 677, 689–691. This practice, too, was never perceived as an encroachment on the federal courts’ jurisdiction. Dames & Moore, 453 U.S., at 684–685. Pp. 21–23.

758 F. 3d 185, affirmed.

GINSBURG, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which KENNEDY, BREYER, ALITO, and KAGAN, JJ., joined, and in all but Part II–C of which THOMAS, J., joined. ROBERTS, C.J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SOTOMAYOR, J., joined.