Published September 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM ET · Updated September 18, 2026 at 10:06 PM ET
Trump announces historic Greenland security deal
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President Trump announced a security agreement with Denmark covering Greenland. Under the deal, the United States will have permanent control over security in Greenland, including permanent US military rights.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
United States v. Belmont held a president can bind the nation through a sole-executive agreement, no Senate consent needed. Dames & Moore v. Regan upheld a claims settlement with Iran resting on congressional acquiescence. A Greenland security deal built on neither ground is exactly the open space: whether presidential power alone can carry it, rather than a Senate treaty, is unsettled.
United States v. Belmont 301 U.S. 324 (1937)
Vote: 9-0 · Opinion: Sutherland
The Litvinov Assignment — the 1933 exchange of diplomatic correspondence by which the United States recognized the Soviet Union and the Soviet government assigned to the U.S. its claims to assets of nationalized Russian companies held in America — was a valid SOLE-EXECUTIVE AGREEMENT that did not require Senate consent and overrode contrary New York public policy.
Dames & Moore v. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury 453 U.S. 654 (1981)
Vote: Unanimous on the judgment (Rehnquist opinion; Powell and Stevens each concurring in part) · Opinion: Rehnquist
SHORT FORM (full apparatus in war-emergency-powers.json): IEEPA authorized the President's nullification and transfer of Iranian assets; the suspension of pending claims — the sole-executive-agreement piece — was validated by congressional acquiescence in a long claims-settlement tradition rather than by explicit statutory text, with Jackson's Youngstown categories treated as a 'spectrum.' NOTED BRIEFLY HERE because it is the leading modern sole-executive-agreement decision: a president can, incident to settling an international dispute, make an executive agreement that reorders private…
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