“Under Article 6 Section 2 of the Constitution, treaties that receive the advice and consent of the Senate will become the ‘supreme law of the land.’ The writers of the Constitution clearly believed that all treaties presented to the Senate should undergo the most thorough scrutiny before being agreed upon. … We request that no treaties be brought to the Senate floor during a lame-duck period and will oppose efforts to consider a treaty during this time.”

So said 36 conservative senators in a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., back on Sept. 20 of this year. They signed the letter stating they would “oppose efforts to consider” any treaty during the lame-duck session

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