[Travis McGee]

It would take 2/3 of the Senate to pass this treaty.

I don’t think 67 Senators will be willing to tattoo “BENEDICT ARNOLD QUISLING TRAITOR” on their faces.

Not in a nation with tens of millions of scoped rifles.

[Silentgypsy]

I pray that you are correct.

[Las Vegas Ron]

It would take 2/3 of the Senate to pass this treaty.

My understanding is that is is 2/3 of the Senators present therefore it would only require 34 vote assuming a quorum of 51.

"[The President] shall have Power, by and with Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur..."

[BigOrangeI]

That’s 2/3 of those Senators PRESENT.

And who controls the Senate, who controls when the votes are taken???

Hummmmm??

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

It would take 2/3 of the Senate to pass this treaty.

The Constitution provides that a majority of the Senate (51 members) constitutes a quorum which is the number of senators that must be present for the Senate to do business. Article 2, section 2 states: "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur... So now we are down to 34 votes to pass.

Now some good news:
"The U.S. Supreme Court has made it very clear that
1) Treaties do not override the U.S. Constitution.
2) Treaties cannot amend the Constitution. And last,
3) A treaty can be nullified by a statute passed by the U.S. Congress (or by a sovereign State or States if Congress refuses to do so), when the State deems the performance of a treaty is self-destructive. The law of self-preservation overrules the law of obligation in others. When you've read this thoroughly, hopefully, you will never again sit quietly by when someone -- anyone -- claims that treaties supercede the Constitution. Help to dispell this myth."

"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17.

Regards,
GtG

[Myrddin]

2/3rds of the Senators present, not 2/3rds of the whole Senate. Timing is everything.

[Dead Corpse]

I don’t think they have much to worry about. If we haven’t started shooting ‘em by now... We won’t be doing it tomorrow either.