The Texas decision specifically denies people the right to self-governance in decisions relating to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and the decision was specifically backed by the oil industry.
Naive.
Texas is self-governed. Local self-rule is a state-determined (read legislature) issue. You don't like it? Move to Texas and have a voice in changing it. I assure you SCOTUS won't touch it.
the issue here is that multinational industries have used their influence in the WTO to tell the U.S. that it is forbidden from taking democratically-approved actions that conflict with industry interests.
Naive.
Two countries cried "foul" when corporate interests bought the US Congress and passed a labeling law specifically designed to unbalance world trade in their favor.
Rather than shoot at each other, first GATT, now its progeny, WTO, was brought into existence to solve such complaints.
WE, the United States, not just helped, but had a lion's share of influence in determining and codifying exactly what/where WTO can and cannot be involved. WE, The United States, signed on agreeing to the terms, stipulations, conflict resolution panels, the whole set up, Jon. WE, the United States agreed to abide by WTO conflict resolution rulings. WE, the United States use those same panels to air our complaints against Korea and China among others.
WE, the United States accepted the WTO as a legally binding treaty under the terms of our Constitution. (Though it can be argued the WTO agreement is not a "treaty" in the strict legal formal sense we use in the US. Still it is considered a binding international agreement like a treaty, just with an escape clause.)
In our Constitution, Jon, such officially approved treaties have as equal a force as "supreme law of the land" as does the Constitution.
So the question you find so naively "stupid" is whether WE, the United Sates, honor our obligations to the global society we helped, in very large measure, to create or if we take Faith's route and refuse, crying about how unfair this society has treated us for not just accepting us throwing our weight around the way we want.
I think, Jon, you really should think about these things before you jerk your knees out of place.
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