But the "nonbinding" modifier has a specific meaning here: As 47 Republican senators pointed out in a controversial open letter to Iran's leadership, any agreement not put to a Congressional vote is considered an "executive agreement" under the US's constitutional system.
In an October 2014 blog post, Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith explained the practical impact of the president evading Congress on an Iran deal: An executive deal would lack the legal grounding and prestige of a treaty, and show that the president didn't find an agreement important enough to warrant congressional affirmation.
"Any deal struck by President Obama with Iran will probably appear to the Iranians to be, at best, short-term and tenuous," Goldsmith wrote. "And so we can probably expect, at best, only a short-term and tenuous commitment from Iran in return."
The US wouldn't have a firm legal obligation to uphold the agreement, so Iran would have a built-in reason to assume American bad faith and push the limits of a future deal. In other words, without a legal guarantee on the US side, compliance with an agreement is potentially diluted Tehran's side as well — and remember, this is a regime that hid the existence of two secret nuclear facilities and operated 20,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges in defiance of repeated UN Security Council resolutions.So besides this deal allowing Iran enough centrifuges to produce fuel for bombs but not enough for peaceful purposes, and coming with a ten year expiration date, our designated representatives in the congress will not have a say in its development and the Iranians can back out when ever...like right after Obama leaves office.
The sick thing is one we start removing the sanctions, the sanctions process will have to start all over again, but by that time it will be too late and Iran will have the bomb.
The Senators' letter was justified before Kerry's testimony today, Kerry's words made it even more justified.
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The left (including Hillary) thinks lying is a legitimate political tool to advance their agenda. The ends justify the means. In fact, they consider anything that futhers their leftist ideology is moral. This includes lying, cheating, corruption, stealing, misleading, dissembling, bearing false witness in court, hypocrisy, and even murder. The Communists held to this same philosophy. Therefore, you cannot and should not trust them.
Hey, so do muslims. Anything that furthers their march toward a world-wide caliphate is acceptable, even admirable. Communists, Socialists, Fascists, Muslims and Democrats - all in one big bed together.
You are absolutely correct. Muslims will use liberals and communists for their purposes then kill them as infidels.
Hillary used very careful language, for sure.
She claimed she did not SEND any classified info by email. But she did not claim she never RECEIVED any classified info by email.
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