’The president has continued to act under this deal as if it were affirmed’

The Iran nuclear deal is signed, it survived a congressional hurdle and now even the sanctions are being removed, but Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, is now looking to the courts to stop the deal in its tracks.
Gohmert said this is the last chance to derail what he insists is a treaty while President Obama is in the White House.
Despite the fact the deal is already being implemented in multiple ways, Gohmert insists the law is on his side.
“It alters the Non-Proliferation Treaty in a number of respects. You can’t alter a treaty with something that isn’t a treaty. It gets into weapons. It gets into a number of things that can only be done with a treaty,” said Gohmert, a former judge who now sits on the House Judiciary Committee.
He said Obama’s ongoing actions also add to the case.
“There is a decent shot in court because the president has continued to act under this deal as if it were affirmed,” he said. “It is a treaty, and he’s acting like it was ratified, and it simply has not been. Never mind that Iran continues to violate the terms and continues to say, ‘Death to America.’”
“[Congress] can still go to court. They can still get a court to rule and a judge in his right mind should say, ’Yeah, this is a treaty and it didn’t get ratified. So no, you can’t act under this treaty and give the largest supporters of terrorism in the world $100-150 billion so they can kill more Americans,’” Gohmert said.
He said the case does not need any congressional vote, although a subsequent Senate vote on ratification would be a big help. Nonetheless, he said the House never voted on Corker-Cardin, and that should bolster the case.
“It was clear from our vote, which the appellate court can take judicial note of, that we didn’t recognize it as being in compliance with Corker-Cardin. So it would have been perfectly understandable for the Senate to then take it up as a treaty and vote it down,” he said. “Unfortunately, they did not.”
Gohmert said it is vital to keep up this fight because Obama is already stiff-arming Congress on new issues, including the lifting of U.S. sanctions.
“Keep in mind the existing law says the president cannot release the sanctions to Congress for a vote,” he said.