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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • but it can also decide that a simple majority didn’t have the power to enact multibillion dollar legislation by the strict wording of its own rules.

    You are not understanding what the Senate is doing here. The “Nuclear Option” is the Senate rewriting its rules. They absolutely have that power. It’s specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

    The court does not have the constitutional authority to demand the Senate follow a previous version of its rules. The court must accept the new rules the Senate writes for itself, because the Constitution gives them the power to establish such rules.








  • Given that quite clearly no rules were actually broken

    You and I, and 50 state AGs might feel that there have “clearly” been no rule violations, but neither you nor I nor a state AG, nor a federal judge are constitutionally empowered to make that determination.

    According to Article I Section 5 Clause 2, the power to “Determine the rules of its proceedings” is granted to… The Senate.

    If the Senate says its rules have been broken, the Senate’s rules have been broken.