From: "Linda Muller" <linda@buchanan.org>
Reply-To: linda@buchanan.org
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:16:24 -0500
To: Brigade@buchanan.org
Subject: [BRIGADE] NAFTA UpdateDear Brigade,
"...A judicial declaration invalidating NAFTA would clearly risk international embarrassment of both the executive and legislative branches," Bush administration lawyers told the court..."
Also see article on Mexican trucks -- soon to be rolling down your street. Afterall, we wouldn't want to embarrass Bush or his co-president Vinny Fox.
FTC - Linda
The Washington Times - November 27, 2001 AP
Justices Refuse Challenge to NAFTA
The Supreme Court sidestepped a constitutional challenge to White House power to negotiate trade pacts and other international deals.
Justices were being pressed to strike down the North American Free Trade Agreement because it was not endorsed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, a constitutional requirement for treaties.
The court declined yesterday, without comment, to review the case that could have jeopardized the standing of other agreements and made it harder for presidents to negotiate future pacts.
The United Steelworkers of America argued that presidents should not be allowed to handle international deals like congressional-executive agreements to get around the Senate vote requirement for treaties.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - November 28, 2001
Opponents of Mexican trucks raise terror fears
by Eunice Moscoso
Washington --- President Bush's plan to allow Mexican trucks on U.S. highways could provide easy access for terrorists, the president of the Teamsters union said Tuesday.
"Now, more than ever, we need to assert control over our borders," James P. Hoffa said during a Capitol Hill news conference. "You have to know who the truck drivers are. What are they hauling? Are they hauling an atom bomb inside . . . or weapons of mass destruction? Those are the things we have to check out."
The debate over the Mexican rigs, which already had pitted the White House against Congress, has been complicated further by the Sept. 11 attacks.