In their usual display of historical and constitutional illiteracy, some liberals are claiming that the 47 GOP Senators' open letter to Iran's terrorist-backing, Holocaust-denying despots somehow violates an obscure law known as the Logan Act. Liberals aren't upset about Obama's dangerously foolish drive to lift the sanctions on Iran and to allow Iran's fanatical leaders to get nuke weapons. No, they're outraged over the GOP letter to Iran.
The articles below point out that the Logan Act does not apply to U.S. Senators, since, among other reasons, they constitute part of "the authority of the United States." The articles also note that the Logan Act is of doubtful constitutionality, that it has never been enforced, and that it was passed by the same authoritarian-minded Federalist-controlled Congress that passed the brazenly unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts.
Liberals did not utter one word about the Logan Act when Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and attacked the U.S. war effort, posed with a NV artillery gun, and betrayed U.S. POWs. Nor did liberals invoke the Logan Act when Nancy Pelosi visited Syria to chat with Assad, or when Democratic Senators visited the Soviet Union and other nations and made known their opposition to Reagan's foreign policy (Ted Kennedy even wrote a private letter to Soviet leaders condemning Reagan), or when Jim Wright and other Democrats wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter to Nicaragua's dictator Daniel Ortega in opposition to Reagan's foreign policy, etc., etc. Nope, not one peep from liberals about the Logan Act on those occasions.
Anyway, here are the articles:
Why Tom Cotton's Letter Did Not Violate the Logan Act
The Logan Act is Not a Friend to Liberalism
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act (a 2006 article by the very liberal Federation of American Scientists)
"Sedition" and the Iran Letter
Democrats Who "Violated the Logan Act"
The Logan Act Talking Point
And it's worth noting that the Republican Senators might not have felt the need to write the open letter if Obama were not making the absurd and unprecedented claim that he can make a nuclear arms deal with Iran without the Senate's consent.
The articles below point out that the Logan Act does not apply to U.S. Senators, since, among other reasons, they constitute part of "the authority of the United States." The articles also note that the Logan Act is of doubtful constitutionality, that it has never been enforced, and that it was passed by the same authoritarian-minded Federalist-controlled Congress that passed the brazenly unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts.
Liberals did not utter one word about the Logan Act when Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and attacked the U.S. war effort, posed with a NV artillery gun, and betrayed U.S. POWs. Nor did liberals invoke the Logan Act when Nancy Pelosi visited Syria to chat with Assad, or when Democratic Senators visited the Soviet Union and other nations and made known their opposition to Reagan's foreign policy (Ted Kennedy even wrote a private letter to Soviet leaders condemning Reagan), or when Jim Wright and other Democrats wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter to Nicaragua's dictator Daniel Ortega in opposition to Reagan's foreign policy, etc., etc. Nope, not one peep from liberals about the Logan Act on those occasions.
Anyway, here are the articles:
Why Tom Cotton's Letter Did Not Violate the Logan Act
The Logan Act is Not a Friend to Liberalism
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act (a 2006 article by the very liberal Federation of American Scientists)
"Sedition" and the Iran Letter
Democrats Who "Violated the Logan Act"
The Logan Act Talking Point
And it's worth noting that the Republican Senators might not have felt the need to write the open letter if Obama were not making the absurd and unprecedented claim that he can make a nuclear arms deal with Iran without the Senate's consent.
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