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Originally posted by sgtclub
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.
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Maybe it's not dispositive, but it's not meaningless unless you presume that the Senate ordinarily ignores the Constitution.
And I don't believe the courts will exercise jurisdiction in a fight concerning the Senate's own rules, so the Senate is the highest court on this question.
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