No Country Has Any Reason To Trust America

Email Print posted by EveningStarNM 03/25/2008 11:52:33 AM EST

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The Supreme Court said in a 6-3 vote that the U.S. is not bound by its treaties with other nations even though the President wants to abide by those treaties and Congress approves.  An individual state  can abbrogate a treaty and interfere in foreign relations without the consent of the federal government.


The Court "ruled that Texas and other states don't have to grant new hearings to dozens of Mexicans who weren't told they could seek consular assistance upon arrest and are now on death row for murder."  Three treaties requiring that action which the U.S. signed and which the federal government wishes to maintain are not binding upon the states.

The only thing left for the Court to do now to totally destroy American foreign policy is to allow the states to sign their own treaties with foreign countries.  At that point, the "United" States disappears.
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Its difficult to know (none / 0)
anymore what to say or how to respond. Its just mind numbing watching it happen and watching your elected representatives of the opposition party enable it.

"If you're not worried, you're not paying attention." --Cenk Uygur

by hazmat on 03/25/2008 04:38:29 PM EST

Congress MUST (none / 0)
Legislate each and every treaty from now on. No more of the President's signature making a treaty binding. That's what I got from it. At the very least this means the President's pseudo-treaties with Al-Maliki are, unless Congress enforces them with legislation, unconstitutional.

Cynicism is poison to reform and pumps life into the status quo.

by prezalex on 03/25/2008 07:21:45 PM EST

Didn't Congress always have to sign treaties? (none / 0)
How is this new?

by jarett on 03/26/2008 01:18:46 PM EST

Yes. I needed to do further research. (none / 0)

I appears that what the Supreme Court did might have been a good thing.  I haven't been able to track down all three "treaties" discussed in the article, but it appears that Bush issued a memorandum regarding one "treaty" which Congress has not approved in which he said it was binding upon the states.  Contrary to Bush's claim, there was no treaty because he can't obligate us without Congress' consent.

I'm still looking for info on two more "treaties".

by EveningStarNM on 03/26/2008 03:16:39 PM EST

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