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2. Nope . . .
Sat Dec 2, 2017, 11:47 AM
Dec 2017

I think this would be the very essence of a "non-justiciable" issue. An Article III court is not going to get into the business of telling an Article I legislative body how to go about its business.

This is not to say that how the Senate has conducted itself here is not contrary to the Constitution. But not every constitutionally-defective action admits of a judicial remedy. That's not how our system of government, a "representative democracy," works. In this case, if the people don't like what their representatives have done, then their recourse is to select different representatives. There is a mechanism for doing that, of course.

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