Will Trump send the Paris Agreement to the US Senate?

[Elderberry]

Watts Up With That? by Charles Rotter  11/30/2020

The Wall Street Journal has called for Donald Trump to finally send the Paris Accord to the US Senate.

    Joe Biden has promised to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord on day one, but President Trump could stop it from having any binding legal power.

    President Obama signed on to the international agreement by executive action in 2015, which meant Mr. Trump could withdraw from it the same way, as he did in 2017. As per the terms of the accord, that withdrawal became effective on Nov. 4, 2020. Mr. Obama’s pledge to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions at least 26% by 2025 wasn’t legally binding. Only Senate consent to its ratification could have made it so—and the upper chamber would have rejected the treaty handily if Mr. Obama had submitted it.

    Yet if Mr. Biden brought the U.S. back into the accord, it’s possible it will take on the weight of law. Although there is nothing about the agreement’s terms or the manner in which the U.S. entered it that make it legally binding on the U.S., some green group may find a friendly federal court to produce that result.

To prevent the Paris Climate Accord from taking on such undue power, Mr. Trump should submit it to the Senate, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should schedule a quick vote. It would certainly be rejected—ratification requires a two-thirds vote—and it is unlikely any court could subsequently resurrect a legislatively tossed treaty. Without the help of judges, Mr. Biden would need a winning ratification vote to make the accord binding, which he likely couldn’t get no matter how well Democrats do in Georgia’s January runoffs and the 2022 midterm elections.

More: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/30/will-trump-send-the-paris-agreement-to-the-us-senate/

[LegalAmerican]

We aren't,  in the Paris accord. 

[Elderberry]

We aren't,  in the Paris accord.

I see reading comprehension is not your strong suit. Or did you even bother to read the article?

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm not sure this would work.  The Senate voted on the "Iran nuclear deal," and it went down by a large margin.  O'Bastard signed it anyway, and agreed to abide by its terms.  It took a new President to throw the abomination out.

The same thing happened with the "Paris Accords."

[GtHawk]

Doesn't matter Biden is all for the Paris accords, he says they were wonderful planes that were so fast you would arrive at your destination before the time you left.

[corbe]

   The final Session of the US Senate is 10 days, Dec 21 to the 31, tentatively, before the new Congress is sworn in Jan 3rd.  McConnell should concentrate on cramming as many Judicial Nominees as he can and let Trump be preoccupied with Pardons, IMHO.


    + the inevitable Gov Shutdown.

[Cyber Liberty]

   The final Session of the US Senate is 10 days, Dec 21 to the 31, tentatively, before the new Congress is sworn in Jan 3rd.  McConnell should concentrate on cramming as many Judicial Nominees as he can and let Trump be preoccupied with Pardons, IMHO.


    + the inevitable Gov Shutdown.

That has been the plan.

[Jazzhead]

It is important to kill this damn thing.   At stake are millions of U.S jobs and our energy independence, our crowning economic achievement of the last 20 years.

[rangerrebew]

Send the Paris Climate Treaty to the Senate – NOW!
December 7, 2020 by Robert

We must reject this intrusive, destructive treaty. Do we really want to transform our energy and economic system, reduce our living standard, curtail our liberties, and subject ourselves to international governance?
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“In 2015 President Obama unilaterally decreed that the Paris Climate Treaty was not a “treaty,” but merely some lesser document that he could personally sign, committing the United States to its unjust terms, and making an end-run around our Constitution and democratic processes,” writes Paul Driessen. “This not-a-treaty would force the United States to engage in a massive, painful transformation of our entire economy. It would put every American worker and family under the control of the United Nations and UN and foreign country activists, politicians and bureaucrats.”

In this article, Driessen explains what is at stake … and urges President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to:

https://www.iceagenow.info/send-the-paris-climate-treaty-to-the-senate-now/