Reminds me of what the USA did a few years ago with the WTO Appellate Body (the "supreme court of world trade"). Since all new appellate judges would need US approval, the US (starting under Obama) just refused to approve judges, until the number of judges fell below the needed quorum, and then there could be no appeals.

The solution? A bunch of the other countries in the WTO just got together and made their own appellate body without the US, and presumably with blackjack and hookers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_Body#History

To this day the WTO is still partially nonfunctional and the stop-gap is still being used.

fuck dang with a rusty cactus, in retaliation for giving me a rate limit

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Spivak an hour ago | parent [-]

Am I wrong or is this whole story super dumb? If the US isn't going to respect the WTO then boot them out, change the rules and move on. This is a human institution by and for other humans. Rule lawyering when one of your players is shitting on the board is madness. I get that that's what happened in effect but just do it in the regular WTO.

	▲	thereisno 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's super dumb. I assume it was really hard to get the whole world on board with the WTO to begin with, and trying to get them to join a WTO-except-USA wouldn't be any easier, especially with the USA trying to shoot it down. A bunch of those countries will have signed national laws and international treaties deferring to the WTO which can't just be updated without renegotiating. And changing the WTO itself would require simultaneous unanimous agreement from all countries besides the USA, and they'll all try to get their pork barrel in.