• feannag@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Sooo anyone in Congress going to ask how the executive branch unilaterally withdraws from Senate ratified treaties? No? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

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      9 hours ago

      Actually, whether or not it’s permitted is, surprisingly, an undecided point in case law.

      The case law here is Goldwater v. Carter, but the Supreme Court ruled on a technicality rather than the major question.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_v._Carter

      Goldwater v. Carter, 444 U.S. 996 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Senator Barry Goldwater and other members of the United States Congress challenging the right of President Jimmy Carter to unilaterally nullify the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, which the United States had signed with the Republic of China, so that relations could instead be established with the People’s Republic of China.

      EDIT: I’ve brought it up before because a somewhat-analogous issue was also surprisingly undecided in UK case law, and there was a major legal tussle in the UK over it, whether or not the Prime Minister had the power to withdraw the UK from the EU without going to Parliament.

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    14 hours ago

    Preventing soldiers from raping folks is contrary to U.S. interests? Jfc.

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      13 hours ago

      He does like rape, just ask his ex wife and E Jean Carroll…and many many little kiddies.

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      13 hours ago

      Given how much they hate being “woke”, does that mean “sleepy Joe” was actually a compliment?