Obama Administration: We Don’t Need Congress to Approve an Iran Treaty

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NRO/ The Campaign Spot:

Jim Geraghty

January 22, 2015

 

Holy… smokes.

 

Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the White House doesn’t view an agreement with Iran as a treaty that requires Senate approval, but a matter of “executive prerogative.”

 

Article II, Section 2, clause 2, U.S. Constitution:

 

[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…

 

 

It’s just down the street in the National Archives, Mr. President, check it yourself.

 

Not only do we have a president who just ignores the Constitution, we have an administration full of people who go along with it.

 

(Snip)