SCOTUS to determine constitutionality of treaties making law

[mojo84]

This could prove to be huge.

http://breitbart.com/Big-Government/201 ... aty-Powers





Edited to correct link

[anygunanywhere]

So much crap on that page I couldn't find it.

Anygunanywhere

[mojo84]

I see what you mean. What you saw was not what I saw and tried to link to. I'll see what the deal is. My apologies.

[2farnorth]

Couldn't find the story on the linked page. Maybe I'm not looking close enough!

edit: I should have refreshed the page before I posted...

[G26ster]

Try this:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... aty-Powers" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mojo84]

Thank you G26ster. Working on my smartphone is not always effective.

[RoyGBiv]

Wow.. Thanks for the heads up..

http://www.volokh.com/2012/09/01/federa ... d=noscript" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

would enable the federal government to circumvent limits on the scope of its power by paying off a foreign power (e.g. – a weak client state dependent on US aid) to sign a treaty covering the subject

[Richard_B]

The principle is rather simple. Such a treaty would be an ultra vires act, one that is beyond the authority of the office.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_vires" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It would be void ab initio, from the outset.

The problem is that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court must have received the low F in Constitutional Law if one is to judge him by his opinion on Obamacare and there are too many in Congress for whom their swearing in is a mere photo op rather than the undertaking of a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic.