The Senate Story That Everyone is Missing
While everyone is focused on Neil Gorsuch, the Trump Administration may be about to deliver the coup de grace to the executive branch’s slow evisceration of the Senate’s constitutional competence over America’s international treaties.
On 4 November 2016, the Paris Climate Agreement entered into force. Four days later, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. If President Trump follows through on his campaign promise to “cancel” U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement, such action threatens to permanently and decisively shift the balance of power between America’s legislative and executive branches, in favor of the latter.
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