[Menehune56]

Can’t someone file a lawsuit to declare the “treaty” and the Senate procedure unlawful, as violating the Treaty Power?

The Corker Bill took care of all that. Now the Pubs can safely be against the treaty since there's no way it will be rejected enough without Democrat votes to override Obama. They were for it before they were against it. Totally disgusting.

[Carry_Okie]

The Corker Bill took care of all that.

By what authority?

[ilgipper]

I cannot fathom an explanation why these idiots would do that. I seriously hate the GOP more than the Democrats and I believe today’s democrats are satan on earth.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Corker bill *might* address the lifting of sanctions, but it cannot supercede the ratification of treaties. Obama and McConnell are trying to avoid calling this a treaty, but the problem is that it quacks like a treaty and Obama is comparing it to past treaties.

A Senator could sue on the ground that it harms his power to advise and consent, and states could sue on the grounds that it violates their representation in the Senate to advise and consent.

There is a reason why advice and consent is a Senate-only power - because it required the permission of the states. But we now have a rogue Senate that no longer represents states' interests. The Senate now represents partisan ideological global interests.

-PJ