“Congress has explicit and sole power to spend, or not spend, money. Idiot judges do not, if the Constitution is still the law.”
I guess we’ll see if that’s still true.... Here’s hoping that at least some of it is still followed.
As Ficklin points out, there is a NAFTA “arbitration panel” whose power was authorized by congress. Now that panel seems to want to override congress. Seems to me that NAFTA provision could face a constitutional challenge, although I don’t know much of the history of NAFTA court cases. In one of them, a US company was awarded 15 million because the Mexican municipality of would not allow a hazardous waste dump.
Now why can’t Mexican companies return the favor? I wonder if NAFTA could be used to force US cities to let Mexican companies build waste dumps. (Looks like some US cities are already becoming waste dumps with the help of illegals.)
I would not be surprised if the same lawyers who were involved in writing NAFTA are now eager to profit from it by suing the US government.
Come on, ambulance chasers! Get into international law so you can get rich attacking countries’ sovereignty! Especially the USA, where the real money is — at least until it is destroyed by greedy businesses, with help from “our” government.