What is the difference between a treaty and an executive agreement?
Anthony Blinken's nod
The Constitution says Treaties must go to the Senate for its advice and consent, and receive a 2/3 vote (68 members) to pass.
Yet over 80% of treaties never go before the Senate and are approved by what is termed Executive Agreement. Biden or his State Department merely signs the treaty and (as they say) that is that.
Attorney Reggie Littlejohn and I asked Professor Francis Boyle what decides which treaties actually go before the Senate.
His answer was that the State Department decides: “There is no law. Just a State Department Circular that unilaterally asserts this power. At the end of the day it is for the Senate to protect is own treaty powers against the State Department.”
According to the Congressional Research Service, Congress could force the issue and demand that both the IHR amendments and the pandemic treaty go before the Senate to be entered into by the US—because, according to international law, both are technically treaties. But if they do not do so, the Biden State Department will simply sign the pandemic treaty (if it passes the World Health Assembly (WHA) with a 2/3 vote: the WHA being the 194 nation members of the WHO).
If it fails this high bar, will the treaty go away? No: probably a lot of the treaty material will be moved into the IHR amendments, possibly after the 4 month deadline for sharing the amendments with the member states and public. Or possibly next year parts could become amendments. Maybe the treaty was a decoy all along?
The amendments are “opt in” so unless the US sends a formal rejection, we will become a party to all the amendments that pass the WHA with a 50% vote. Which is another reason why there is so much secrecy regarding them: they are the vehicle the cabal is totally committed to passing, while the treaty is iffy.
What Congress ought to do about this is clear:
a) rescind this power of the state department to decide what the Senate reviews
b) demand that the treaty and amendments must be passed by the Senate with a 2/3 majority before either is entered into by the US
and much more, which I will write about next.
Destruction of a nation by slowly dismantling constitutional protections. Among other things. Here in Chinada its already too late. Out resident idiot again outdoes yours by putting tampon dispensers in all 3 types of federal service washrooms with no mention of Female. As carbon spews from his jet and methane from his arse like a cow( another ridiculous fear point), every few days this de-married nazi lover rainbow boy finds another destructive diversion to blame his imminent political demise and prison sentence on.
Surely zee prison bug rations will be sufficient sustenance.
Speaking of treaties. The one time a formal treaty to annex Hawai'i was submitted to the US Senate, it failed to get the 2/3 necessary. There WAS no "Treaty of Annexation." So in a sleight of hand, they put in a "joint resolution of Congress" which has no effect over an independent sovereign country, which Hawai'i was and recognized as such by dozens of countries, INCLUDING the US from 1843! Hawaiians now want their country back!