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 ...
[emphasis added]
The Constitution’s two-thirds Senate rule regarding treaties is violated by Fast Track as it currently stands and has stood; and that provision of Fast Track (reducing the required two-thirds down to merely half of the Senators voting “Yea”) would need to be eliminated and the Constitution’s two-thirds-Senate requirement restored, in order for there to be able to be any further applications of Fast Track; this would not necessarily apply regarding past applications of Fast Track such as NAFTA, and prudentiality might sway against such retrospective applications; but, for TPP, TTIP, TISA, and other future applications of Fast Track, or in other words for constitutionality of future international-trade agreements, the words of the Constitution are unmistakably clear, and those words must be applied, notwithstanding the violations of the U.S. Constitution that have already been erroneously instituted. The purpose of the U.S. Supreme Court is to hold that document, the U.S. Constitution, and none other, as this nation’s inviolable Scripture, by which all future actions of the United States Government are to be evaluated, and all future laws (a treaty being in a separate and even stricter category for which reason the two-thirds Senate rule was included in Article 2, Section 2, Paragrapy 2) are to be judged to be either valid or invalid.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/fast-track-violates-the-u-s-constitution/
The author is absolutely right. But here are a few key observations on the matter:
- The traitors will claim that these are not "treaties", merely "trade deals". This is a lie, of course, but the MSM will assist in the promulgation of this lie.
- The courts won't do a damn thing to stop this. Should a lawsuit even make it to the Supreme Court, the justices are likely to rule that the plaintiffs do not have standing to bring the suit, and that will be the end of that.
- Note well that the alleged "savior of the republic" (Senator Rand Paul) tied up the Senate and most people's attention with his surveillance-related filibuster (which in the long run will accomplish nothing) while he and the other traitors voted for this unconstitutional treaty making authority. Had he really cared about the future of the US, he would have focused his efforts on defeating Fast Track. But he did not. He tossed us a few peanuts instead, while he and his fellow traitors sold us out.
Think about that on Memorial Day: "Our" government sold us into bondage, and all our brave men and women died for nothing.
Update: Due to the court decision, Obama ad-Dajjal was going to dismantle the metadata collection program anyway. Senator Paul's filibuster was an election-related stunt benefiting no one but him (and perhaps not even him):
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/05/23/administration-begins-dismantling-nsa-metadata-program/
My guess is that since the program wasn't yielding any results, the NSA had already decided to devote the servers it was using to some other program. And if Apple, Google, and their ilk are willing to provide the data, so much the better:
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2015/05/apple-and-google-in-bed-with-spies.html
Second Update: Here is another discussion of why trade promotion authority ("fast track") is unconstitutional:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Trade-Promotion-Authority-by-Joel-Joseph-Agreement_Political_Question_Senate-150527-63.html
Since we're living in the post-Constitutional era anyway, no one seems to care.
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