At this point the very ground under our feet is literally for sale to any corporation in the world. (Or to any Country willing to pony up.)

Everybody wants to rule the world, and they're already damn close. This will put them over the edge.

It sets the Treasury as the payor when a regulation results in lost profit.

As a practical matter, the CBO will have to calculate in this additional cost of litigating and paying off investors whenever a law or regulation is proposed. It will bring the regulatory process to a standstill.

in filing a lawsuit, they cut sections of the Voters Rights Act?

call f/ Senate ratification. Wonder just when the barely noticeable distinction between the two was made official?

Or not.

And peeps having been complaining about the "nonconstitutionality" of arbitration since it's been around, and that's been several decades now. It's like the "militia" prvoision gun enthusiasts like to yodel about, conveniently overlooking the preceding "well-regulated." IOW this old dog might hunt but at this point it isnt going to catch much.

That meant that if an investor wanted to effectively press a case against another state, it had to enlist the support of it's own government's Trade Representative to do so. TPP cuts out the middleman, and makes it possible for corporations to flood the arbitration system with direct Investor-State complaints whenever a new law or regulation threatens to cut into their profit margin.