On Monday, Virginia officials granted permission to the Islamic Saudi Academy of Fairfax – the only Saudi-funded school in the United States – to double the size of its facility in Northern Virginia just across the Potomac River from the nation’s capital. That means the school will be able to increase the number of students it indoctrinates in an extreme version of Islam. The same indoctrination is found in the most radical madrassas across the Middle East. These institutions graduate students who are steeped in hatred for America and Western Civilization and who are often committed to a deadly kind of jihad. This is a fool-hardy decision by local officials that should be overruled by federal authorities.

That’s not likely, however, because the U.S. Supreme Court declined June 29 to hear a civil lawsuit filed by the 9/11 families alleging a financial link between members of the Saudi royal family and terrorist front groups, based on what The New York Times described as “thousands of pages of previously undisclosed documents,” including a “line-by-line description of tens of millions of dollars in bank transfers, with dates and dollar amounts.” Without considering this new evidence, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals threw the case out on grounds of sovereign immunity. The Justice Department also sided with the Saudis, ordering attorneys to destroy any copies of leaked classified documents in their possession.