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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The practical effect of a lot of things is to thwart the will of a majority of senators, but that does not make those things unconstitutional, not when they are a part of a tradition of parliamentary rules that have been around since long before the Constitution was even drafted.
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and the fillibusters to prevent judicial votes is just a rule that the Senate had been saving up for some 200 odd years just waiting to try out?
