Treaty? Are they calling it a treaty? It will be a treaty when it passes the US Senate. Biden can try to pretend it’s real, put them in a truck comes in the door, he can withdraw from it.
“It will be a treaty when it passes the US Senate. “
Sadly we live in the post Constitutional era. Since 1945 our nation has gone to war a number of times without a Constitutional declaration. January 6 protestors were arrested, denied due process. and incarcerated for years without trials. On this forum, within the last week a respondent to one of my posts insisted the 1994 agreement between the US, Great Britain and Ukraine is a “treaty” obligating the US to defend Ukraine, even though it never passed the Senate.
Most politicians are attorneys and our laws schools have been teaching the living Constitution, not the meaning of the framers, since the middle of the last century. The Constitution today means what whoever wields power says in means.
there is some ancient edict that states that if a president does something by executive order which gets the nation into a treaty, and the congress does not act to prevent it, or object via majority, then it ‘becomes binding’- one of the newsmax hosts had some fella on that explained it better than i could- but apparently it is still in effect-
BUT- IF a feckless democrat does give away our nation’s sovereignty, then the republicans will have a very powerful election point IF they can get the message out enough that democrats hate this nation so much that they are willing to surrender our nation’s most precious quality, our sovereignty
Sovereignty?
Do we even have any left?