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To: Red Steel

Can the Supreme Court overturn treaties ratified by the Congress and signed by the president?


490 posted on 02/13/2010 7:35:27 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: usmcobra
Can the Supreme Court overturn treaties ratified by the Congress and signed by the president?

Not to my knowledge. Once a treaty becomes ratified by the Senate, it has the power of the Constitution behind it as if it is apart of it until we withdrawal from the said treaty.

492 posted on 02/13/2010 7:42:37 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: usmcobra

Yes.


500 posted on 02/13/2010 8:23:25 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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To: usmcobra
It might be handy to know this as the
current administration will try to enter into agreements
that are contrary to it.

BLACK, J., Judgment of the Court

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
354 U.S. 1

Reid v. Covert

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0354_0001_ZO.html

Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957), is a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution supersedes international treaties ratified by the United States Senate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_v._Covert

503 posted on 02/13/2010 9:50:42 PM PST by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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