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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A circuit court of appeals' understanding is that every decision it makes is constitutional. The fact that the Supreme Court sometimes disagrees does not mean that the circuit court was ignoring the Constitution. And here, the Senate is the body that construes its own rules, not a court.
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No, but it doesn't make the substance of their decision constitutional either. The senate is free to construe it's own rules, as long as those rules don't lead to unconstitutional results. Surely if the Senate's internal rules required a 2/3 approval for an action for which the Constitution expressly requires a majority, the Senate should not be permitted to interpret its rules to thwart an express Constitutional provision.
