It is undemocratic. FDR was not all-seeing and all-knowing.
These courts are incompatible with the right of Americans to a jury trial in a case in which the damages claim exceeds a certain amount.
We will pay dearly for these deals.
Our courts are good and fair, and we should not accept verdicts on financial matters that can influence or change our sovereign right to determine our national fiscal policy or our voters' right to choose representatives to set all of our other policies.
The trade courts are incompatible with democracy.
And I don't think that the idea of speculative damage claims that can be granted by an international court is at all good.
What will happen?
Corporations that were started in the US and that should be considered American and that should pay their taxes in the US will incorporate in other countries JUST TO AVOID OUR JURY SYSTEM. They will make claims to the trade court and enforce them here.
I became aware of this problem because of the NAFTA arbitration court. Not a good thing. I could tell you more, but I cannnot.