another TPP question -- This one from My wife.

[diabeticman]

If this TPP does pass could it be possible for let's say a Corporation sue to remove a politician like Elizabeth Warren from office because her speech could be viewed as harmful to they company? You know like slander.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. With TPP, everything's up for grabs.

[msanthrope]

2. No. nt

[Hoyt]

3. No.. They can sue for damages resulting from a breach of international trade laws.

That's it.

If we get a BMW plant to move to America with good jobs, and some government agency levied a special tax on BMWs, BMW might have a case that could be submitted to an tribunal under oversight of organizations with ties to WTO, UN, etc. No guarantees they'd win though.

Elizabeth Warren speeches - hyperbolic as they may be - ain't likely to breach international trade agreements.

[MisterP]

4. the cattlemen shut up Oprah on Mad Cow a decade back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case

they also have some potty-mouthed drone with a gas chromatograph attacking the Food Babe now