Enforcing Sanctions
By David Gordon
August 5, 2017
In his excellent interview on the sanctions against Russia just passed by Congress, Lew Rockwell pointed out that President Trump in his signing statement protested against some of the legislation as unconstitutional. Lew regretted that the President did not say that he would refuse to enforce the sanctions he deemed legally improper. But I wonder–has President Trump ruled out following this course of action? He did not forthrightly say that he would not enforce them, but perhaps he left the door open to this. This would be a substantial step to a more peaceful world.
David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and Distinguished Columnist at LewRockwell.com. He is also author of Resurrecting Marx and An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and editor of numerous books including Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard. Send him mail.

