Disappointed' in Obama, Sanders Calls on Top Dems to Drop Lame Duck TPP Push

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Those arbiters are picked on a case by case basis. Each side gets to pick one and the third has to be agreed upon by both parties.

Hardly a stacked court.

It's garbage like you posted above that leaves me unable to take most of what is posted on here about the TPP seriously.

Don't know where you got the notion what you posted is correct but here is actual text from the TPP

Article 28.9: Composition of Panels
1. A panel shall be composed of three members.
2. Unless the disputing Parties agree otherwise, they shall apply the
following procedures to compose a panel:
(a) Within a period of 20 days after the date of delivery of the request
for the establishment of a panel under Article 28.7.1
(Establishment of a Panel), the complaining Party or Parties, on the
one hand, and the responding Party, on the other, shall each
appoint a panellist and notify each other of those appointments.
(b) If the complaining Party or Parties fail to appoint a panellist within
the period specified in subparagraph (a), the dispute settlement
proceedings shall lapse at the end of that period.
(c) If the responding Party fails to appoint a panellist within the period
specified in subparagraph (a), the complaining Party or Parties
shall select the panellist not yet appointed:
(i) from the responding Party’s list established under Article
28.11.9 (Roster of Panel Chairs and Party Specific Lists);
(ii) if the responding Party has not established a list under
Article 28.11.9 (Roster of Panel Chairs and Party Specific
Lists), from the roster of panel chairs established under
Article 28.11 (Roster of Panel Chairs and Party Specific
Lists); or
(iii) if the responding Party has not established a list under
Article 28.11.9 (Roster of Panel Chairs and Party Specific
Lists) and no roster of panel chairs has been established
under Article 28.11 (Roster of Panel Chairs and Party
Specific Lists), by random selection from a list of three
candidates nominated by the complaining Party or Parties,
no later than 35 days after the date of delivery of the request for the
establishment of a panel under Article 28.7.1 (Establishment of a
Panel).
(d) For appointment of the third panellist, who shall serve as chair:
(i) the disputing Parties shall endeavour to agree on the
appointment of a chair;

And it goes on to lay out how they can equitably come to agreement on the chair.

Nothing at all like you described.