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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by mikeash on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:59AM (#19115404)
That’s been the standard since the adoption of the Constitution. If it was a slippery slope, you’d think we would have slipped down it at some point in the past 230 years.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by everdev on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:12AM (#19115547)
Seems like we're always finding new precedents to set like the "nuclear option" in the Senate.

And 230yrs is pretty young for a country.

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by Piskvorrr on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:40PM (#19125148)
Young for a country, pretty old for the same base set of rules within that country.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by jki275 on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:30PM (#19116561)
The "nuclear option" is just a senate rule. It's not a law, it's not in the Constitution.
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