Posted on 01/19/2021 12:16:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Joe Biden has made no secret of his intention to get us back into the Paris climate accords. It’s high up there on his laundry list of things to do upon taking office—even though the United States leads the world in reducing carbon emissions, despite not being a part of it anymore.
But the truth is, the United States was never actually legally a part of the Paris climate accords. The United Nations describes it as “a legally binding international treaty on climate change,” and it also meets the definition of a treaty under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which states that a treaty is “an international agreement concluded between [two or more] States in written form and governed by international law.”
And what does the United States Constitution say about treaties?
It says that the president “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur.” It’s right there in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.
Yes, Obama unilaterally signed the United States into the treaty in the final months of his presidency, which was a very telling move. Nearly 200 countries signed the treaty on December 12, 2015, but Obama didn’t sign it until nearly a year later, during the final stretch of the 2016 presidential election. Obama, who fancied himself a constitutional scholar, never even attempted to go to the Senate for ratification. Instead, he avoided referring to the agreement as a treaty publicly, in order to argue that Senate ratification wasn’t constitutionally mandated.
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Since when does that ever stop communists?
Legally? Dear Lord, please are idiots these days.
Legal? We don’t need no steenken legal!
We’ll be back in it by end of day tomorrow.
People need to realize that the rule of law is over. They are going to do what they want and that’s the end of it.
“Since when does that ever stop communists?”
Exactly! They’ve just shredded the constitution, stolen an election, and now someone is crying about legality of something?
Funny, in a sad, tragic sort of way.
Since when do Republicans stand up for the law and what is right?
Uh, we were never in it legally?
Legally get us back in?? Seriously? C’mon man!!
He’s not even the President, LEGALLY!
please just stop....there is no law...all the judges are corrupt....if Trump doesn’t act or can’t act, the rule of law and the rule of common sense, are gone...
Who has standing?
Bingo. It didn’t stop Obama from the Iran deal or the Paris deal.
Author wrote “And what does the United States Constitution say about treaties?”
Is he REALLY that stupid and out of touch? I expect more out of PJ Media.
Um- I do believe that obamamalalama wasn’t legally allowed to get us into it- yet he did
lol
Legally speaking, what should have happened, was that Obama would have submitted the Paris agreement to the Senate to be ratified as a treaty.
Legally, I question our legal obligations with Paris, as our country never followed the legal procedure to ratify. I understand that with Democrats in charge again, our country will act as if this agreement is legally binding. But I do question the legality of all of this.
No Republicant will challenge Xiden’s illegal actions in any court.
Politicians at all levels are regularly doing things that are illegal or unconstitutional or both. But they are getting away with them. Why? Because no one is fighting their actions. Or, at least not effectively fighting their actions.
If someone with money, say, Trump, takes Biden’s actions to court, will the rulings all say he has no standing? When a court wants something to remain as is, that’s their go-to.
McConnell inverted the treaty provision of the constitution before. Passed but could be reversed with 2/3rds objection.
Schumer can do the same thing.
Yep- never went through the senate for approval the first time- same thing will happen again likely- Republicans didn’t even put up a fight when we held the senate either- some made a bit of a squawk if i remember right, but nothing serious-
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