“It is much worse than we thought. The rule change includes very dangerous amendments – 13 of them. Investigative reporter Leo Hohmann reports that these amendments will NOT require approval by 2/3 of the United States Senate. It’s not called a treaty. It’s amending a treaty we are a part of.”
I still don’t understand how the Administration can modify a treaty without going to the Senate for the changes to be ratified. Its not the same treaty that was once approved. Therefore, I won’t recognize it as law and will not obey their dictates.
Leo shouldn't have gotten his law degree off the back of a cereal box.
It doesn't matter whether or not you call it a treaty, and it doesn't matter if it is only amendments to a prior treaty that we may have ratified. Any new obligations treaty obligations for the United States must be ratified by the Senate. Sometimes, even that is not enough. If the treaty is determined to have direct domestic impact rather than just covering international relations, even ratification by the Senate won't make it enforceable against American citizens. You would still have to pass implementing legislation that would have to be passed by the House, the Senate, and then signed by the President into law the same as any other law.