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To: BobL

Executive agreements are international agreements but they’re not treaties.

They don’t need to be ratified while treaties the consent of two-thirds of the Senate.

The latter are purposely difficult to pass because they create binding legal obligation and are the supreme law of the land.

Obama and Kerry couldn’t craft a treaty acceptable to the Senate because would never agree to the kind of terms that would make a treaty pass the Senate.

They just punted the issue and contented themselves with a less than ideal agreement.

Now Trump has voided Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement. He promised to do that on the campaign trail as a candidate.

And he fulfilled it as President.


13 posted on 05/08/2018 5:43:33 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Now if there’s a way to undo Obama’s deal for Bergdahl and send the guy back.


19 posted on 05/08/2018 6:46:32 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: goldstategop

According to the State Department, Iran never signed the document. Therefore it was not even an executive “agreement!”


28 posted on 05/09/2018 10:19:29 AM PDT by JME_FAN (uired to)
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