Its true that its tenuous, reversible.
But if it could be activated and used even once, thats one Presidential term more in line with the people, than with anything else.
Its far from perfect, but it is a useful tool, a potential step toward a new kind of politics, where the backward empty states stop having their bonus pity handicap points, and thus an outsized ability to force their ignorance on the masses.
Franklin did dare us all to try and “keep it”, and I’d say we’d be fools not to make use of every legitimate method to do so.
Its a kind of hack, a way to do essentially a Constitutional Ammendment without actually doing one, but that can also be ‘repealed’ more easily than an Ammendment.
If you can use it, and well exploit the advantage… eventually, you can reshape the system.
No guarantees, but… its an opening, an opportunity.
How many voted-in politicians regularly commit war crimes?
Not many, but they have been known to tell other people to, on their behalf.
Partially agree to it, the ICC, not full ICJ jurisdiction for every member of the US government.
Everybody in DoD is subject to it, and then define a mechanism where if a DoD official is asked or ordered to do something that could make them liable to be sent to the Hague, theres a mechanism for instantaneous security declassification and emergency presentation to Congress, that also permits the order to be stayed untill voted on by both chambers as a legitimate or illegitimate order, also simultaneously voting on impeaching and removing the offending politician(s).
Thus, it ain’t a politician directly voting to potentially fuck themselves, and it isn’t a total … relinquishing of US sovereign authority.
Something like that.
Some kind of mechanism like this would also augment what the War Powers Act tries to do but does not actually do well at all. Starting a war of aggression is a war crime.