RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
July 3, 2024 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2024 at 11:11 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 3, 2024 at 9:12 am)Mr Greene Wrote:(July 2, 2024 at 4:26 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Something major needs to be done. It seems to me that this is a national security issue. The USA has long kept its external enemies at bay but we are now being dismantled internally. The nation is literally under attack and Biden has an obligation to act. He is the Commander in Chief and has now been given limitless official power.
Potentially an international issue given the US influence within NATO, would a move to overthrow US democracy constitute an Article 5 matter?
No. Article 5 requires an "armed attack" as the trigger. Our democracy is being dismantled internally, as @AFTT47 notes.
Quote:Article 5
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.”
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topic...20attacked.