• homura1650@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    The treaty itself does not have any enforcement mechanism; however the US does. US courts recognize ratified treaties as having equal weight to laws passed the normal way Ratifying the Treaty would immediately make it federal law. The US has a robust enough legal system that the courts would the (over years of building up case law) determine exactly what that means.

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      9 months ago

      This.

      A treaty is a three step process. Draft, sign, ratify. This made it to step two, not step three for the US.