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U.S., And Now Russia, Announce Plans To Withdraw From Nuclear Arms Control Treaty

"Save the INF Treaty, Save the World"

Sasha Ingber Serena McMahon February 1, 2019 12:03 PM ET

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Updated Feb. 2 at 8:30 a.m. ET

The Trump administration said Friday that the U.S. will formally begin the process of withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Treaty, the Cold War-era arms control accord with Russia — a move that prompted Russia to announce its own withdrawal on Saturday.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/690632548/u-s-announces-it-will-withdraw-from-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-with-russia

With Bolton's history of opposing international arms reduction measures and Trump's
self-stated first grade temperament they make potentially a very dangerous pair.

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Russell Feingold Donald Trump can unilaterally withdraw from treaties because Congress abdicated responsibility

The constitution provided for the separation of powers to save us from autocrats. But the legislative branch undermined that.

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May 7, 2018, 6:33 PM GMT+10 / Updated May 7, 2018, 6:33 PM GMT+10

By Russell Feingold

During this administration, everyone has to be alert and watching for potential misuses or abuses of power. Unfortunately, due to decades of executive aggrandizement and congressional acquiescence — coupled with judicial timidity — the ability to unilaterally withdraw the United States from every last treaty the Senate has ever ratified has been left solely in the hands of President Donald Trump.

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There were few comments by the founders on the issue of withdrawal, but arguably the clearest comes via Thomas Jefferson. He wrote in his manual of parliamentary practice, which he composed while presiding over the Senate: “Treaties being declared, equally with the laws of the United States, to be the supreme law of the land, it is understood that an act of the legislature alone can declare them infringed and rescinded.”

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The failure to act to assert Congress' constitutional prerogative
now hands an erratic and often vengeful president the
power to undo crucial international agreements.
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Unfortunately, that is not what is "understood" today. When President George W. Bush unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, only a few members of Congress protested; Congress as a whole failed to insist on a vote. Several members of the House then sued to force a vote (an effort I was prevented from joining by the Senate Ethics Committee). That lawsuit was rejected by the courts, because Congress had failed adequately to assert its powers and because the judge ruled “issues concerning treaties are largely political questions best left to the political branches of the government, not the courts, for resolution."

That failure to act to assert our constitutional prerogative now hands an erratic and often vengeful president the power to undo crucial international agreements.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/donald-trump-can-unilaterally-withdraw-treaties-because-congress-abdicated-responsibility-ncna870866