By Diana West
November 07, 2013
Just
wondering: Could the use of these poisonous chemicals (to dogs) be banned under
an international chemical weapons treaty as implemented by Congress? The following report from The New York Law
Journal relates how "a `lover's triangle' dispute from Pennsylvania ...
has mushroomed into a major test of the power of Congress to implement
international treaties in ways that may interfere with the prerogatives of the
50 states."
WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court arguments over the constitutional power to make
and implement treaties took a dramatic turn Tuesday when Solicitor General
Donald Verrilli Jr. warned justices that a ruling interpreting the meaning of a
chemical weapons treaty would be "terribly unfortunate" and could
disrupt "very sensitive negotiations" underway with Syria and other
nations. Verrilli's statement seemed to
irritate the court, which.......Read More »
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