I think any treaty should by default need approval by legislature for both entering and exiting the treaty, unless the legislature explicitly empowers the president to exit a particular treaty without legislative approval.
No country would trust the US if treaties could be potentially changed every 4 years by one person.
We had a pretty good run relying on an expectation that there’d be a responsible, competent adult in the White House.
We’ve had incompetent people in the White House, they just weren’t also complete crooks.
Or were far more accomplished at hiding their crookedness and knowing when not to be a public jackass.
Treaties specifically require approval in the Senate. It’s in the Constitution.
A non-corrupt court system would not permit a President to enter or exit a treaty without Senate confirmation.
I’m surprised all treaties aren’t handled this way. We have such a high bar to approve them for a reason, it seems silly to not have a similarly high bar to leave them.
I do understand why you would want to be able to exit fast. I think it makes sense for the individual country as a safety net in case whatever deal you’ve entered goes south.
…but having a system in place to ensure that the majority agrees with that decision is important.
Amy Coney Barrett proves that the US legislature can move fast whenever it wants to.
And now I’m picturing a Republican Congress and Presidency being voted out by the people, only to have the exiting Congress pass a “We Hereby Exit From All Treaties” bill, signed by the President before the changeover happens. All to leave the incoming Democratic Congress/President with a huge foreign relations mess to clean up.
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You give “the dumbest of the dumb” more credit than I would.
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It has bipartisan support in the senate, but who knows what the republican-controlled house will do. This bill basically exists to prevent Trump or another republican president from fucking around with U.S. and global security.
I mean…. well done? Way to not allow anyone idiot completely fuck everything up.
Definitely will stop any republican bought by Russia from trying to dismantle NATO.
Now whether this bill will actually pass…
The fact that it allegedly has “strong bipartisan support” gives me cautious hope.
It’s a bill that unilaterally gives the Legislature additional power at the expense of the Executive. Congress will probably approve it because they’d become more relevant.
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Trump’s still the President, loophole.
