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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
"In 1975 the senators changed the filibuster requirement from 67 votes to 60, after concluding that it only takes a simple majority to change the rules governing their proceedings. As Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ([D-Mont.) said at the time: ''We cannot allow a minority'' of the senators ''to grab the Senate by the throat and hold it there.'' Senators Leahy, Kennedy, Byrd and Biden all agreed."
Nearly a decade ago, Lloyd Cutler, the former White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, concluded that the Senate rule requiring a supermajority vote to change the rule is ''plainly unconstitutional.'"'
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Not sure what your point on the first is, other than dems. But on the second, it's a different point, because it goes to the creation of the rules in the first place, not their content. I don't think anyone has said that teh nuclear option itself is somehow either unconstitutional or barred by the rules of the senate. it clearly is constitutional and consistent with the rules.
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Quadro-phenia! Quad-rangular!
