Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review, Mar. 19, 2022
“Congress, especially the Senate, has abdicated what the Framers presumed would be a partnership with the president in conducting foreign policy.”
‘It’s unconscionable.” That is how Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) exquisitely described the Biden administration’s determination to lift the economic sanctions against Iran — the sanctions that former President Trump reimposed when he renounced the Obama–Biden administration’s Iran nuclear deal. Because “it’s unconscionable,” Cruz insisted that “Congress must put a stop to it.”
The senator has been a champion of American national-security interests when it comes to the fights against both the 2015 nuclear pact (formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) and the even greater abomination with which President Biden — in collusion with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin of all people — is scheming to replace the JCPOA.
Nevertheless, Cruz is also a constitutional-law expert. His word choices are rarely idle. Notice: He said Biden’s scheme is unconscionable. He didn’t say illegal. Therein lies the problem . . . along with the problem of having only one Ted Cruz when, on Iran, we need 60 to force the overhaul of bad law in the Senate.
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of BALL OF COLLUSION: THE PLOT TO RIG AN ELECTION AND DESTROY A PRESIDENCY. @andrewcmccarthy
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